Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In 1953 Browne got 15 friends to invest $1,000 apiece in an expanded version of the Sundown, opened the Gaslight Club. He decorated it to resemble a fancy turn-of-the-century saloon in red velvet, covered the walls with paintings of nudes, supplied a ragtime piano player and...
Now Browne has another project in mind. He wants to set up in Paris the kind of romantically naughty bistro that he thinks every U.S. tourist dreams about finding there-but never does.
The burglars in this instance are as amiable a bunch of cabbages as ever put their heads together. One (Renato Salvatori) is a successful baby-carriage thief. Another (Carlo Pisacane) is an old and toothless messenger boy. The third (Marcello Mastroianni) is a no-talent photographer, the fourth (Tiberio Murgia...
The gang goes in through a coal chute. Unfortunately, the furnace has been converted to oil, and the first man lands in a tank of it. Somebody drops the burglar tools. Somebody else puts a foot through a skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town...
The Magnificent Seven (United Artists) suggests that, after many a disappointment with Hollywood and television westerns, U.S. reviewers and distributors are so saddle-sore and range-blind that they cannot tell a ring-tailed snorter from a bucket-foot mule. Greeted by a flurry of inattention from the critics, this...