Cinema: Teaming Off

HANKY PANKY

Directed by Sidney Poitier

Screenplay by Henry Rosenbaum and David Taylor

The police are after him, suspecting him of murder. Some renegade CIA agents are also in nasty pursuit, convinced he helped repossess some missile plans that they went to a lot of trouble to steal from the Government. No question about it, mild-mannered Architect Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) has to run for cover. But when he packs his bag, he pauses to match up his socks and then roll them up into prim little balls, just the way his mother taught him....

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