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...aftermath of terrorist attacks like the London subway bombings, it is often tempting to conclude that those who purposely commit suicide in the service of mass slaughter must be sick, evil, not quite human; they are not us. But as investigators pieced together the fragments of the plot that left at least 55 dead, Britons were forced to confront a reality nearly as disturbing as the attacks themselves: the killers were their...
...services around the world have joined the hunt. On Friday, Egyptian authorities detained Magdy el-Nashar, a biochemist trained at Leeds University who left Britain at least a week before the attacks; he may have had contacts with the Leeds bombers, though he denies having any involvement in the plot...
What converted Newell (apart, of course, from the first three movies' combined $2.6 billion worldwide take) was Goblet's plot. "Book No. 4 seemed to me to have terrific potential," says Newell. "It's very, very dark and sort of a classic thriller." To prepare for the film, the director "began obsessively watching the great paranoid thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and All the President...
...mean streets and manicured lawns of Southern California, Raymond Chandler's tough, noble P.I. was a natural for Hollywood. He has been played by Robert and George Montgomery, by James Garner and James Caan, but Bogie did it best in Howard Hawks' 1946 version of a novel whose plot was so labyrinthine, even Chandler couldn't say who killed the chauffeur. There's also Bogie's Baby, Lauren Bacall, as the distressing damsel, and a trunkload of noir atmospherics...
...Warner Oland (16 films), then by Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had a black man (the gifted Mantan Moreland) for comic relief. Yet there's a pinchpenny gusto and some nifty plot twists to these Monogram studio marvels...