258:. Ida stabs hers in the bathroom at a restaurant. Mike shoots the yachtsman with a speargun as he tries to retrieve another package of opium. Barry and Dutch drive straight onto the grounds of the chateau and shoot the opium processor. Sherry poses as a waitress and poisons another leader of the ring. Sherry, in practice runs, initially has problems committing this crime in the crucial allotted time, primarily because she's in
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faulted the film for "illogical plotting" and a too-long running time that "allows for some tedium," but praised "a charismatic dimension to
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