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...when a man who identified himself as a detective knocked on the door and said he had information about an auto accident involving a man in a white Ford. Thinking that Woodward had been hurt, Mrs. Mackle opened the door and found herself confronted by a masked man carrying a shotgun, and a smaller person wearing a ski mask, who, Mrs. Mackle thought, might be a twelve-year-old boy. After binding Mrs. Mackle hand and foot, the kidnapers seized Barbara and hustled her into a car. Mrs. Mackle freed herself in minutes and phoned the police. Almost at once...
...course he is nothing of the sort. His innocence is only a mask for a settled malice directed against a society that he thinks has gone mad. He keeps a punching bag in his studio, and every once in a while "beats the hell out of it." His visual jokes are intuitional and may indeed have no rational point. But they end up as a kind of emotional fishhook, snagged in the memory. They are images not wholly explicable, but impossible to dislodge...
...have forgotten my mask, and my face...
...wanting. Betrayed by his English accent, he cannot articulate inversions like "Luck I was always short of" without seeming to pronounce the quotation marks around the words. His most effective support comes from Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov, the court-assigned defender of the fixer. Wearing a fine mask of melancholy disdain, he grows gradually more revulsed by the corruption he witnesses in the palace of justice; his actions and his death predict the fall of the Romanovs as surely as any Leninist edict...
There's two gorgeous wrestlers, you see? A white one, Ricki Starr, played by Ricki Starr. And a black one called Lillywhite-don't you just love it? Ricki wears red ballet slippers and pirouettes in the ring. And Lilly has these terrific pectorals and wears a mask like Batman. He kind of falls for this absolutely sumptuous rock-'n'-roll singer, Christian, played by David Anthony. But before he can kidnap him, some wretched girls-the Touchables, they call themselves-capture Christian and spirit him away. They also steal some statues. The statues...