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...Australia's Cup, while sun-bronzed Aussie and Yank oarsmen strained for the rowing championship. Children fished happily while lifeguards on surfboards kept an eye out for bikinied girls in distress. But as any Aussie will tell you, this was no run-of-the-millstream regatta. Consider...
...choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser. The words were easy to understand-for good measure, they were printed on the jacket-and the repertory never got far from the old millstream. By last week, Columbia and Conductor Miller had issued five more albums, and the sing-along series had sold an astounding 1,750,000 copies...
...this makes a little masterpiece of Judy's big seduction scene, in which she drifts dazedly down the old millstream of her instincts (absentmindedly slipping off her shoes and undoing an earring), right to the crucial point when she remembers that Lawford had billed her as "the average American girl," who shouldn't be doing such things. Nevertheless, Judy is so good at this one role that it would be interesting to see her play another...
...check proved futile, but Fabian's guess about trucks turned out to be right anyway. When the dead woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger...
...better gags in "Movie Crazy" are visual, and the most inspired scenes need no sound at all. One such shows Lloyd, wearing one shoe and a-straw hat, pursuing his other brogan through a rainstorm as it is carried along in a gutter millstream to the inevitable sewer inlet. Later on, the hero inadvertently dons a magician's dress coat, complete with eggs, mice, sausage, rabbits, and the traditional squirting carnation, and has himself a time on a crowded dance floor...