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Coat hangs on a double frame-up. A dumb penguin of a waiter (Roddy Mc-Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted...
...what he has seen and what he has merely dreamed. When a killing apparently takes place next door, he hurls himself variously into 1) the chase, 2) the pneumatic embrace of Cover Girl Raquel Welch, whose acting ability ranges from busty to hippy, and 3) conversation with his dumb uncle (Eduardo De Filippo), who hasn't spoken to anyone in 50 years and communicates by blasting off homemade firecrackers. By the time the non-crime is non-solved, the movie may well earn itself a theaterful of non-viewers...
...perfect crime in this picture is described twice. First time around, the criminal (Michael Caine) confidently imagines how it will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner...
Forum has seven Graces. One is huge-eyed Donna Poitras, who overcomes her thankless ingenue part with a lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...
...heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies. Calvert is simply too incredibly dumb to be taken seriously. Assigned to track down pirates in the Irish Sea, Calvert stumbles on the gang right away. But instead of sensibly going for help, he hangs around long enough to be shot down in a helicopter, and endures so many beatings, near stranglings and near drownings that...