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...trials with the screenplay in a recent Sports Illustrated article--but director Michael Ritchie has loaded up the old story of two country boys (and one country girl) who come to the city and make good with New York cocktail party jokes, including a sometimes flat parody of Erhardt's est, and the result is, well not exactly semi-bad, but still disappointing...
...Clint Murchison of the Cowboys has probably done that, albeit silently. It would be nice if owners were that dumb; the throwback owner of the Giants, Wellington Mara, probably is but not the Murchisons, Hunts, and Robbies of today. David Merrick depends on an abrasive charm as the Werner Erhardt figure who is a kind of camp follower cum guru, but in the end he is just abrasive. In fairness to Ritchie, the great part of the movie that involves Merrick and his est-parody probably had to be inserted quickly as the NFL refused to lend much assistance...
Four members of the Fogg staff testified for the prosecution: George M.A. Hanfmann, Hudson Professor of Archaeology; Patricia Erhardt, keeper of the Fogg Coin Room; museum photographer Michael Nedzweski; and Charles Pearson, a guard on duty at the time of the theft...
...male leads are miscast--Michael Erhardt as Moncrieff only slightly, and Thomas Babe as Worthing more seriously. But both overcome this and emerge as the most dependable members of the nine-man cast, Erhardt generally underplays his outrageous lines, and Babe doesn't have...
...both Erhardt and Miss Hawkins play their roles in a way consistent with Erhardt's interpretation. And like the rest of the cast, they managed to ground Shavian moralizing and epigrams on a firm base of Shavian entertainment...