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A botched assassination attempt that killed innocents is just the kind of thing the citizens ought to know about, while the government won't want them to know.
It’s a favorite haunt for local fellows looking for foreign innocents abroad.
One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.
Their monsters differ (Satanic pornographers and incestuous rapists on the one hand, megalomaniac therapists on the other), as do their helpless innocents (wounded children vs. day-care Dreyfuses).
Typical of this type of drama is the 1976 film The Enforcer , a sequel to Dirty Harry . Eastwood pursues a gang of hippie terrorists who murder assorted innocents and kill his female partner in a shootout.