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High Fever. The pollution-control industry is smaller than the big-dollar amounts might indicate. About 1,000 companies claim to be in the act, but only 200 to 300 have any real stake. Among them are Betz Laboratories, Re-search-Cottrell, American Air Filter, Sy-bron and Zurn Industries. Most anti-pollution equipment is neither new nor exotic. In air pollution, it consists largely of particle collectors for smoke stacks, fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators. Only 10% of the money spent on water and waste treatment goes into hardware; the rest is accounted for by labor, engineering and materials...
...Eleanor Bron as the object of Moore's affections is quite accomplished in foiling the series of attempts Moore makes to win her Miss Welch provides her ample support as one of Cook's seven deadly sins, Lust...
...ancestor of all man-v.-devil stories, the Faust legend has spawned some curious offspring over the centuries. The latest, Stanley Donen's Bedazzled, could in all likelihood qualify as the worst. A meek little short-order cook (Dudley Moore) hankers inarticulately after the waitress (Eleanor Bron) in a London greasy spoon. The Devil (Peter Cook) follows him home and makes a proposition: seven wishes granted, a soul in return...
Unfortunately, none of the wishes works out quite right. In answer to one, Moore is turned into a voluble young intellectual who plies the willing Bron with Brahms; just as her defenses begin to crumble, a scratch on the record breaks the romantic mood. Moore also asks to have a perfect spiritual union with his beloved, but he fails to specify one important detail and thus ends up as a nun. Finally, his wishes spent, he throws himself on Cook's mercy; in a resolution that would have sickened Goethe and Marlowe, the Devil inexplicably turns gentleman and calls...
...Finney is not so fortunate, and seems curiously unsympathetic in helping to turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...