Word: chases
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...eluded him for months and become a personal nemesis. Belmondo's pursuit, which is elaborate and unlikely, finds him at one point hugging the roof of a speeding Metro train as he tries to get at the bad guy trapped in the car below. It is a chase out of The French Connection or The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, so it is difficult to determine whether the scene is too shopworn to be effective or just too stupid...
...Night Caller is one of those French films made in envious and inadvertently silly imitation of American crime melodramas. Director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) works hard to duplicate every cliche of the genre, from a car chase right down to a breathless pursuit up stairs that wind like a snail's shell...
...emergency brake while spinning the steering wheel to excecute a 180° turn within a two-lane road. The bootleg is not recommended for amateurs, but it may be one way for the skilled driver to get away from kidnapers or terrorists. Or at least prolonging the chase...
...painful limits of power have never been felt more keenly by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his youngest brother David, chairman of New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. For weeks they had been pleading for federal help to prevent a default by New York City. The personable, thoughtful banker had often traveled to Washington to meet with Ford and to testify before the Senate Banking Committee. His message: the reverberations of default could badly damage the U.S. and world economies. It was David Rockefeller, in fact, who persuaded Brother Nelson to change his mind on aid to New York...
...hearts could desire - except the power to reproduce themselves (probably because they lack fresh air and real sunshine). They must send sirens up to lure studs down, and that is where the boy - despite his dog's warning - goes wrong, precipitating one of the year's better chase adventures...