Word: matthau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dies and gentillllmen: the Greatest Show on Earrth!" Charlton Heston, dressed in black boots, white pants, scarlet coat and top hat, was kicking off the celebrity-filled first night of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey in Los Angeles. Walter Matthau turned up as one of the clowns. "I was raised in an orphanage, and I went to the circus for the first time when I was twelve," Matthau recalled. "It was one of the happiest times of my childhood." Matthau's son Charlie, 10, was crowned King of the Circus. Then came the grand parade of elephants with spangled...
...Lonely Are the Brave. Kirk Douglas stars in a story of an old-fashioned cowboy caught in the gaping maw of mechanization and impersonalized society. The symbolism ranges from movingly sensitive to absurdly overstated, and the ending is painfully obvious, although not out of place. Walter Matthau is the country sherrif who has little desire to contribute to the immoral badgering of a man whom he respects in a more atavistic than human way, but he is too much a part of the oppression to remove himself from it. Matthau's commentary as he watches the same dog take...
PETE 'N' TILLIE are Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, two lonely San Franciscans gingerly approaching middle age. After a whimsical and rather winning courtship (the movie is at its best here, sweet and shrewd and funny), they settle down into suburbia. They have a boy named Robbie, bright and happy, who contracts a mysterious disease and dies before reaching adolescence. The marriage founders, breaks and is mended again. Based on the Peter DeVries novella Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie is a mixture of puns, wisecracks and tragedy. All this might have worked...
Candy, innocence and viture debauched with a smile. Includings grins by Marlon Brando, James Coburn, Richard Burton, Ringo Starr, and Walter Matthau. Orson Welles Cinema...
...Fortune Cookie. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in a better-than average comedy. 8. May 17. Chan...