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During the first three scenes, Genet doesn't repeat himself enough to spoil his gamy jokes. If you aren't too squeamish, you will laugh when the Executioner (Frederick Q. Rice) reaches under the Whore-thief's dress and claims to have found a flashlight, bearskins and several pairs of socks in her "notorious Kangaroo pocket." If that kind of thing bothers you, stay home. There's plenty of it all the way through...
...sheer boredom. The city boasts not a single place of entertainment; since Moslems generally do not drink, there are no bars or nightclubs. The only excitement occurs on Friday afternoons when crowds gather in the public squares to watch the flogging of convicted thieves. If the thief is a third-time offender, his right hand is amputated at the wrist...
...proves splendidly seeworthy. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) and Lieutenant Christian (Brando), bound for Tahiti to pick up a cargo of breadfruit seedlings, commence a duel of wills as soon as they put to sea. When the captain gives a seaman 24 cuts of the cat for calling him a thief, the lieutenant reasonably inquires: "If one punishes a man so severely for a minor infraction, what does one do for a serious offense?" When the captain turns the ship unexpectedly, causing a tun of water to crush another seaman, the lieutenant icily lets him know that he is a murderer...
Barabbas. A mysterious figure. The Gospels say only that he was a thief and a murderer condemned with Christ but released by Pilate when the mob, asked to choose which one should live, cried out: "Not this man but Barabbas!" The church fathers say little more. Yet if Christ died for any man he died for Barabbas. What is the meaning of this fateful and God-chosen criminal who gleams in the shadows of the Christian understanding...
...real life pretending he is Gary Grant. Open Paris Match, for example, and there, in all likelihood, will be a picture of him in a sexy Italian car zooming east of Nice on La Moyenne Corniche-the same route he followed with Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief. He is the darling of the internationals-a janizary in Kelly's Monegasque toy palace, a captive treasure among the potentates and popinjays of the Onassis floating salon...