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...SUCCESSO. As an ambitious young executive who sheds wife, friends and integrity en route from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap, Vittorio Gassman demonstrates how to succeed Italian-style...
...SUCCESSO. As an ambitious young executive who sheds wife, friends and integrity en route from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap, Vittorio Gassman demonstrates, sometimes hilariously, sometimes chillingly, how-to-succeed-Italian-style...
...South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...
...actually in absurdity. One contingent bumped up against a Viet Cong patrol and caught a burst of machine-gun fire. A private was hit five times, but the bullets were spent, and he limped off to a helicopter for evacuation. Another marine caught a slug right up the barrel of his M-14 rifle-a one-in-a-million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws of a Viet Cong mantrap, and when a fourth marine rushed to his aid, the rescuer stumbled onto a sharpened bamboo stake-injuring...
...even the cast has a good time. The nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...