Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three one-minute Pontiac commercials. One shows Bonnie and Clyde in the hands of an effervescent dealer. The gang has just pulled a bank job and needs "something that moves." The rest of the commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed: "How are you going to finance it?" Bonnie mutters sullenly: "Finance...
...World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
...last week Buckley's ever-present smile slid from his face. He was in jail, convicted of having helped to kidnap a witness in an effort to create an alibi for Defendant Bowers in the fire-bomb case...
When Watkins still refused to co operate, Buckley decided to let him go on the theory that "he's an ex-convict; he won't say anything." Buckley was wrong. Watkins went straight to the police and brought kidnap charges. The trial took just two days; the jury just two hours...
What strings it all together is Coburn's hairbreadth escapes from a herd of foreign agents trying to kidnap him for the secrets in his head and the men from something called the Federal Board of Regulation trying to kill him for the same reason. Coburn romps spryly through the part, with the comic cooperation of Severn Darden as a friendly Russian spy with an Oedipal problem, and Walter Burke as the uptight head of the FBR who exhorts his faceless men (all under 5 ft.): "Kill him . . . the nation expects it ... think of your mothers." Coburn...