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...pairing is as before. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) is still the wise, patient husband; Albin (Michel Serrault), the transvestite wife, remains prone to hysterics and to giddy romanticism. The two are involved in a rather strained spy plot after Albin comes into possession of a microfilm wanted by both the Súreté and what one must assume are Communist spies. It is only when Albin and Renato are forced to flee France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women...
Robert O. Blucker, 53, a State Department petroleum economist, got off the plane in Algiers looking rather natty in a three-piece suit and tie. In a phone call to his mother, Mrs. Hazel Albin of North Little Rock, Ark., he said that he had been wearing the suit when captured and had been given no other clothing during his detention except another pair of pants. He had once slept in the suit for 45 straight nights, and had not been allowed to take a bath for three months. The reason, he assumed, was that he had been "belligerent...
...Copyright by Agence Sygma and Editions Albin Michel, Paris...
Parker recreates old movie clichés with shameless abandon: a car chase is routed through a barn, from which the autos emerge covered with straw and squawking hens. Fat Sam's speakeasy has a janitor (played by a winning, wistful Albin Jenkins) who mops floors and dreams of being a tap dancer. Parker reproduces, in the character of Blousey. the goody-goody bitchiness that made the "nice girls" of gangster flicks such eminent candidates for strangulation. The hoofing is exuberant and surprisingly adept, even if Paul Williams' musical score is a little slick. The whole movie...
Special work visas had to be arranged for the American kids. When the shooting schedule overlapped the school term, the production was required to hire six teachers to hold classes. These sessions taught Harlem's Albin Jenkins, nine at the time, to read and write...