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Geraldine Chaplin, close-cropped and clad all in white, observing that Winchester is low on the high life, but soon to have her eyes opened by jaunty sailor Bobby Darin, whose vocabulary may be limited to "Ain't that so?" but who has certainly seen the world. It's all absurd enough to be riotously funny, but only Mason seems to have noticed. His deliciously wicked performance (nonchalantly playing with paper-clips in the courtroom, launching into a lengthy reading from
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immigrant called Jo. Angela falls for Jo. After a vicious fight with Jo, Barney is immobilised and Angela hides him in the attic of her house, where he is shot dead by an intruder. The murder weapon is planted on Jo, who is arrested and put on trial. Nobody in town wants to defend him, so Angela begs
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