Word: boffola
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...boffola of the Soviet screen is Meeting on the Elbe, and it has everything-American reactionaries, stolen secret formulas, a sexy, blonde FBI undercover agent, music by Shostakovich. Above all, it has a message. So far 2,000,000 Moscow movie fans have seen it; it has packed 22 of the Russian capital's 50 movie theaters...
...Baby" lacks the necessary speed of action and the vital, high caliber gags to carry it over the inevitable slow spots. It bogs and badly after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right on through to the bitter end. Cary Grant stars opposite Hepburn and is charming and funny as always. Katherine Hepburn has sinus trouble...
Working with Dirty Eddie, Cassard thought he could make a big boffola* of Will Y.ou Marry Me? The Gare St.-Lazare became Chicago's La Salle Street Station -a more appropriate background for Eddie, who played a key role in a plot more complicated than Crime, and Punishment. Eddie was sensational. Said Producer Vanya Vashvily: ". . . the worst director can't harm him. His left profile is as good as his right." But trouble started when, right in the middle of shooting, the farmer who owned Eddie refused to let him act at a piddling $40 a week...