Word: abduction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot is raveled. It revolves around the U.S. Attorney General's office, which employs the Mafia to find a cool freelance hit man to abduct a Robert Vesco-like tycoon from his extradition-proof Caribbean hideaway and return him to face justice back home. This effort is complicated by many subplots, romantic and otherwise, all of them dismally predict able, all of them stretched to transparent thinness. James Coburn, Sophia Loren, OJ. Simpson and a quite decent group of character people are involved in this non sense. One pities the lot of them, but none more than Loren...
Patrick, of course, is the creator of "deprogramming" for cult converts, and he was on hand also. He works with family members to abduct converts and subject them to nonstop ranting by teams of operatives until they renounce their new faith. Warning that "there is a conspiracy to turn [the U.S.] into a totalitarian state," he stated that he has personally deprogrammed 1,600 people, ranging in age from 13 to 81. In a forthcoming Playboy interview, Patrick includes First Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, a neoPentecostal "memory healer," on his list of cult leaders who bear watching. Another witness, Author...
...plays El Gallo. Roy is a veteran of many Harvard theatricals, and his performance is not a casualty of incompetence, but miscasting. El Gallo is the most difficult role in the show. He must sing the beautiful opening ballad "Try to Remember," introduce the characters, narrate the action, abduct Luisa and allow himself to be beaten by Matt, and philosophize on the Meaning of It All. Roy is a good actor, but he is all wrong for the part, El Gallo is supposed to be dark, handsome, suave, sophisticated and on-key; Roy has a paunch his cummerbund...
...dynamism of the idea, and Alfalfa would get the lead as chief crooner. (Buckwheat, of course had to build scenery and sell tickets.) Eventually the rich kids down the street, unmitigatedly evil and oversized in their velvet Fauntleroy suits would come around to tear down the stage and abduct Darla. Like little well-dressed Huns they would attack until sandbagged by the faithful stagehand Buckwheat or popped in the eye by Captain Spanky. In these Depression allegories, the bullies always ended up running, torn and muddied, back to their monocled mamas while the Rascals had a champagne victory party...
...girls meet Rafferty in a park where he has gone to spend his lunch hour sucking on his pint of rye. They inexplicably abduct him (using a gun loaded with blanks), let him escape and then permit him to rejoin them when he decides that careening around the country may be more interesting than what he has been doing...