The plot is, as I say, dense, but not difficult to follow. Robert Trebor (terrific name, by the way, a palindrome) gives a nearly perfect imitation of a guy who is a sweating, shaking, desperately twitching nervous wreck, but still with his eye pinned on profit and, mostly, survival. An expression of dumb comprehension creeps slowly over his face and his eyes squint over his bleeding nose. After Scheider and Ann-Margaret have clobbered him following a botched murder attempt (a little hard to believe), he sits in a chair having his picture taken while Scheider implants in his mind a few seeds of doubt about the probity of his partners in crime. There's something oddly amusing about Williams' villainy. He and Scheider played well off one another in 'The Last Embrace.' Clarence Williams is a sort of doggedly cunning and brutal muscleman, done quietly but effectively. He's the kind of villain who would enjoy pulling hooks out of fish.

John Glover is a delight to watch on screen - and to listen to - with that slimy smile and midlands Maryland accent that descends into working-class vulgar when the situation calls for it. The same could be said of Vanity, but her part is rather small. Ann-Margaret is breathtakingly good looking, and her performance is exceptional. Scheider is Harry, a morally flawed businessman with a mechanical bent. He's also from Orange, New Jersey, which is a good place to start from. Roy Scheider never turns in a bad performance, and here his face is beginning to look comely and battered with time. But the plot was interesting and dense, as it is in this movie. The guy writes as if he's producing a technical manual with people instead of parts. I've only read one of Leonard's crime novels and it didn't impress me much with its style. Reviewed by rmax304823 7 / 10 Polished Leonard

Will Harry let up and pay off Alan or can he find some other solution?. Their sociopathic leader, Alan, responds with violence toward the mistress and menace toward Harry's wife. They up their demands, so he goes on the offensive, tracking them down and trying to turn one against the other. To protect his wife's political ambitions, Harry won't go to the police instead, he shines them on and then doesn't pay. He's been set up, and they want $105,000. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city council, has his life overturned when three masked blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress.

52 pick up book