Word: strother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lois H. Nesbitt, aged 31, died Friday apparently from strangulation. A neighbor discovered Nesbitt shortly before noon in the bedroom of her Codman Park apartment. Police arrested Richard Strother, aged 31, in connection with the murder Saturday...
...About 7,000 people in the U.S. are killed by residential fires each year ?75% of them during the night. Up to 60% of those lives might have been spared by smoke alarms, safety experts contend. Says Richard Strother, associate administrator of the Commerce Department's National Fire Prevention and Control Administration: "We believe they're the single most effective piece of equipment ever devised to prevent fire deaths...
...mysterious origins and flexible future. He rides into New Orleans on a boxcar and soon afterward picks up a fight and a manager. Speed (played with appropriate flash by James Coburn) is a small-time gambler who spots a sure shot at the big dollar. With a hophead physician (Strother Martin) as medical consultant, Chaney and Speed scuffle around trying to pick a few more fights...
Hawkins (CBS) is James Stewart in the guise of an ol' country lawyer who likes to let on that "moral dilemmas give me gas." Along with his sidekick and cousin, nicely played by Strother Martin, he squared off in earlier episodes against big-city decadence (the season opener featured a gay apartment house, an alcoholic actress and an attempted rape of a Lolita-like minor). But in next month's installment the pair will really get to shuck the corn. They will return to Jim my's home town in West Virginia to defend a man accused...
Still, there are some excellent things in Hannie Cuulder. Hurt Kennedy's direction is robust, the scene about learning to shoot a pistol is superb, and the homicidal Three Stooges - Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin (both of The Wild Bunch) and Jack Elam - are the best bad guys around...