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...rewarding experience today to see five youngsters sitting on a doorstep obviously having a gay time. Upon inquiry I discovered that each had a script of the play currently being produced and was enjoying himself by learning parts other than...
...wish, Fuller's kids start the day doing three-R lessons in Spanish, then shift to Russian, later to Greek, and finally English. In the one-room-schoolhouse tradition, the oldest help teach the youngest. Thus all proceed at their own pace. The smallest tot begins writing in script, assiduously copying such maxims as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead of spontaneous sketching, the kids dutifully copy reproductions of the masters; Fuller shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch...
...Stone Age comedy, The Flints tones. Father has troubles with his job and endless petty nuisances around the House. Daughter (Anita Gillette) falls in love with an unacceptable fellow-a Red diplomat, in fact-but eventually settles for a goodolamurrican Secret Service man. Now and then the script calls for a lapse of taste, as when Nanette burns through The First Lady, the sexiest song in the show, or when she comes on in a grass skirt and begins to bump and grind...
...more tropicalamity with a sounds-great-if-you-don't-think-about-it title, tame performances by all concerned, and direction (by Britain's Anthony Asquith) that does nothing to set the tame on fire. But from this point forward, thanks principally to an intricately reflective script by a young British playwright named John Mortimer, the film rapidly matures into a philosophical thriller of startling moral insight...
...everybody so nasty? The script does not say. It simply leaves the customers to assume that Hollywood, no matter where you find it, is hell, and the people who run it are devils. It may be so, but this movie won't make anybody believe it or even care. The moviemakers clearly want people to care. Director Vincente Minnelli and Actor Douglas have worked hard on the film. They are dead serious-and therein lies their error: the subject is too trivial for serious treatment. It could probably be more tellingly developed as a farce. Imagine all those cinemoguls...