Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Happening. "Is it real, is it fake?" yammer the Supremes over the picture's titles. "Is this game of life a mistake?" Indeed it is, at least in this film. Three fun-burned Miami boys and a girl in search of the beach goddess, Kicks, decide to kidnap a wealthy racketeer (Anthony Quinn). As it happens, Quinn is unredeemable. Desperate phone calls reveal that his wife and partner are cuckolding him ("For $200,000 you can keep the son of a bitch," she snarls). His Mafia associates refuse to extend their black hand; even his mother would rather help...
...Thompson's taxi was mysteriously switched, whereupon the taxi headed for a garage for repairs. There, Thompson and his traveling companion were asked to take another taxi that already contained two men, but refused to share the ride. Friends figure that this may have been an abortive kidnap attempt. On the day that Thompson disappeared, a caravan of five cars was seen going up the usually traffic-free road to the highlands and coming down three hours later- right after Jim Thompson vanished...
Riding south with a wagonload of symbolic refugees from reality, the tough Hombre wards off a bandit attack led by Richard Boone. But Boone manages to kidnap an Indian-hating lady (Barbara Rush) and rustle the horses, leaving Newman to lead the little band to shelter. The band, it turns out, consists of soloists who cannot harmonize: a malleable Mexican driver (Martin Balsam) who has settled for permanent second-string status; Rush's husband, a corrupt Government agent Fredric March); a pair of bickering teenagers; and a wry-and-ginger redhead (Diane Cilento) who wouldn't mind becoming...
...mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word of close ties between the two countries were to get out, Eshkol was afraid that it would jeopardize Israel's relations with Morocco as well as with France, where, last October, six persons went on trial...
Whatever the reasons for the kidnap plot, the Czechs went easy on Kazan -possibly because Czechoslovakia is seeking trade advantages from the U.S. and an expansion of tourism, which could hardly be encouraged by the martyrdom of a U.S. citizen. He was sentenced to a comparatively light eight years in prison; he could have got as much as 20. At week's end KazanKomarek's sentence was suspended, and, having satisfied the Czechs' mysterious purpose, he was released and put aboard a flight to New York...