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...Nephew Churchill reports, cries in movies. He joins in the family tradition of greeting relatives by mewing like a cat or barking like a dog. Once during World War I, Nephew Churchill leaned out of an upstairs window and, drop by drop, poured the contents of a chamber pot down upon the heads of his uncle, then Minister of Munitions, and Prime Minister Lloyd George. But Churchill's accounts are more anecdote than insight: he never really tries to explain what makes the old man tick. And sooner or later, since he is writing an autobiography, Churchill is brought...
Domesticity sets in. A cave is found and furnished, and the men go out to hunt. Pretty soon they find something that pretty well fills the pot-a chicken 20 ft. tall. But next day they have trouble with bugs-bees as big as rhinos. And that same afternoon the island is invaded by pirates-just regular-size pirates. At the height of the battle, the pirate ship blows up and sinks. How come? Moments later, a weird figure comes gliding through the surf. It's a fish. It's a sub. It's-Captain Nemo...
...Innocents (20th Century-Fox). Henry James once deplored The Turn of the Screw as a "shameless potboiler." There is irony in the confession. For in this little novel the creative flame that boils the pot rushed up from black abysses of religion seldom plumbed in this author's insuperably civil art. Though the book is known to schoolboys merely as a grand ghost story, it is experienced by mature readers as a demonological document of shuddery profundity. Some of that profundity is sacrificed to saleability in this film, which derives partly from the book, partly from William Archibald...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from a Paris hit, puts a pinch of murder into a pot of sex. It is expertly stirred by Julie Harris and Walter Matthau...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from a Paris hit, puts a pinch of murder into a pot of sex. It is stirred amusingly well by Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau...