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...cell, entertaining him with inane games and tricks. Nothing these caricatures have to say is particularly trenchant or arresting. But the way they say it is an elegant example of inventive staging, costuming and ensemble playing under the direction of Gerald Freedman, which all but makes up for the script...
...wise move. The script by Herman Raucher and Newley never graduates to the sophomoric. Female characters are given Ian Fleming labels with a touch of Li'l Abner: Polyester Poontang, Miss Maidenhead Fern, Trampolena Whambang and Miss Hope Climax. Jokes consist of lethal single entendres like "Heironymus lays them in the aisles," or Berle's remark as he rows a boat on a sandy beach: "I haven't passed water in three days." Between them, Newley rants some chants that are mislabeled songs, appears more naked than his victims, and plots along in the hope that some...
Every moment of Renoir's La Marseillaise shows the idiosyncracies of the men of the Revolution, the variety of their personalities. From the beginning the plot and the Revolution are advanced by the actions of specific characters. Not only on a script level, but more vitally in Renoir's formal style, so the actions of each man make the Revolution: breathtaking camera tracks sum up their actions into a single forward motion, and the characters are thereby swept into the world of the film, the historical movement that was the French Revolution...
...boisterous servants--especially in the second act--gives you much more to watch than you could ever take in. You often miss good lines, but on the whole it doesn't matter; there are lots of others. Cooper has conserved all the sharpness and wit of Benavente's script, adding some delightful touches...
...soft on hippies. In one episode, the Modders go to the aid of an underground paper only to discover that the scheming hippie editor had bombed and wrecked the paper himself to attract publicity and expose "police indifference." Still, the actors try for a modicum of realism. When one script called for Williams to crack "Don't worry about me; they can't see me in the dark," he barked back at the director: "You don't really want me to say that ol' Man Tan line, do you?" He didn...