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...tries his patients, who would like to see him committed to Her Majesty's asylum. With the help of his animal chums, he breaks away and sails on the good ship Flounder in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. On board his overloaded ark are an Irish cat-food seller (Anthony Newley), a small boy (William Dix), and a pretty admirer (Samantha Eggar). All too soon the Flounder flounders and the story slows down to its quarry's pace. Moreover, because violence is done to the original-there was no love interest in the books, for example...
...CAT by Georges Simenon. 182 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
...Cat is the story of a widow and a widower whose hatred for each other is exceeded only by their common terror of dying alone. The Bouins married in their 60s, and now, in their 70s, their communication is limited to nasty little notes to each other. Simenon car ries their story along less by turns of plot than by twists of the knife. Venom becomes the sole remaining source of vitality. And when Marguerite Bouin dies, her husband, who hated her so, collapses. He has little hope of ever leaving the hospital...
...whether they can cover their man. So we look for strength and speed-for backs who are strong enough to come up and make the tackle on running plays and fast enough to stay with the flankers." Smith and Hazelton fill that bill. Smith has "the quickness of a cat," has been clocked in 9.7 sec. for the 100; Hazelton is a 9.6-sec. sprinter and "just loves...
...time to stop the Czechs. Having established their consummate skill at making tragic and comic cinema using home-grown themes, they have now cracked the code of the West with a solid slapstick spoof, Lemonade Joe. The film is from the same bag as such American satires as Cat Ballon. Yet it holds its own by offering an uncompromisingly wild style and a woolly scenario, plus some of the most unlikely and unmotivated songs since Gene Autry hung up his guitar...