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...Thief of Baghdad. Orson Welles, at 4, 5:50, 7:45, and 9:45 p.m. Additional Saturday show at 2 p.m. No Sunday shows...
Uncloudable sunniness of mood is what is required to sit through this decorative but unsubstantial comedy without snarling. A viewer whose child, hitherto an incorrigible hubcap thief, had just won a full scholarship to Harvard might be in the proper frame of mind. Playwright Frank D. Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) should have been able to manage something sturdier than this weak story, a trifle about a naive and virtuous American screenwriter-snickers begin here -who is called to Paris to rescue a bogged script. This pilgrim, played amiably and unseriously by Wayne Rogers, arrives with a red, white...
...YOUR GRANDFATHER'S a king, your father's a drunk, your mother's a thief and you're a gypsy, your situation is unbearable but inescapable. Not only do you have the same exotic blood they do but you have the same light fingers. You're stuck...
...truths. In 1969, for example, when Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser kept stating that another Arab-Israeli war was inevitable, she was reminded of a man in a Russian village who always could predict what night the horses were going to be stolen. Why? Because he was the thief...
Falk sometimes manages to escape the director's slow pace. His portrayal of the thief with the heart of gold never falters. When he accidentally discovers that the Brink's fortress is no more than a poorly protected warehouse of money waiting to be hit, he rushes out and buys his wife a 100 per cent muskrat coat to celebrate his upcoming...