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...this tame foundation, Scripter Melville Shavelson attempts to build a wild farce involving missing bank funds, a $60,000 horse-race parlay, and a remarkably uninspired police chase. At regular intervals, Groucho Marx appears to give advice to the lovelorn, but his best bits have no relation to the plot and are palely reminiscent of scenes from earlier Marx Brothers movies. Among its other novelties, Double Dynamite does a reverse on standard Hollywood nepotism: it was produced by 3 3 -year-old Irving Cummings Jr., and directed by his 63-year-old father...
People Will Talk. Scripter-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz needles the medical profession in his latest comedy of U.S. manners & morals; with Gary Grant and Jeanne Grain (TIME, Sept...
People Will Talk. Scripter-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz needles the medical profession in his latest comedy of U.S. manners & morals; with Gary Grant and Jeanne Grain (TIME, Sept...
...most of the dialogue is more literate than the Hollywood average; some of it, evidently contributed by Co-Scripter S. N. Behrman, helps Actor Leo Genn to shine as Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera...
People Will Talk. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz needles the medical profession in his latest comedy of U.S. manners & morals; with Cary Grant and Jeanne Grain (TIME, Sept...