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...Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville cemetery with the wife of a local auctioneer. When the husband opened fire, Buntline shot him through the head. An angry mob attacked Ned at the court hearing, but he escaped to the top floor of a nearby hotel. Clawing for the roof, he plummeted "forty-seven feet three inches (measured)," to the ground. Though the scars and broken bones that resulted crippled him for life, they also became a good investment...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal, in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...
...provided the finale for "An American in Paris"; Vincent Price and a boatful of Mexican police sinking into the bay with Price standing in the bow--cloak tossed over his shoulders--in "His Kind of Woman"; Alec Guinness descending the subway steps near the end of "The Lavender Hill Mob" to the music of a rhumba band, as the scene changes to South America climaxing Guinness' flight with the subtle relief of his escape; Elizabeth Taylor visiting Montgomery Clift's prison cell in "A Place in the Sun"; the Indian dance done by Radha in "The River"; Audie Murphy...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal, in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...
Plotwise, Kerr gets Taylor, Taylor gets religion, the mob gets Nero, and the audience gets restless. How Metro could spend so much money on "Quo Vadis" and come up with such a mish-mosh of didactic dullness will of course remain one of the great mysteries of our time. Never have so many paid so much to see so little...