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...script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oh, Kaye | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

EXETER: The first ten minutes of Make Mire Mink are sickeningly dismal, as only British farce can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining 80 minutes, happy to tell, are sheer joy. Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding-house occupants on a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds, naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDAR | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

EXETER: The first ten minutes MAKE MINE MINK are sickeningly dismal, as only a British fare can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining eighty minutes, happy to tell, are shear joy, Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding house occupants in a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDER | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...pronounces Walter Kerr with critical accuracy, "am a hell of a lot neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even spreads out on the ground around him. He is almost as tractable as a dog, certainly more ingenious and inventive. He is violently affectionate, independent, mischievous, curious-and naturally housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet & an Otter | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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