Word: bryanston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Entertainer (Bryanston; Continental). "ARCHIE RICE," it says in 6-ft. letters on a shabby music hall in a third-rate watering place in the north of England. "Archie Rice, the one and only." Thank God for that, the manager is thinking. Here it is, the height of the season, and not 50 people in the house. Archie's up there, center stage, backed by a tableau of nudes, hollering a patriotic song and keeping time with his midsection. Then he does a little tap dance, insults the bandmaster, sticks his cane in the trombone and leers as he wiggles...
...Battle of the Sexes (Bryanston; Continental), the less amusing of the two comedies, nevertheless permits Sellers to perform a minor prodigy of uproarious understatement. The picture transposes The Catbird Seat, a wickedly funny short story by James Thurber, from Manhattan to Edinburgh, and expands it from about eight pages of print to 88 minutes of celluloid. Sellers plays the hero of the piece, a timid soul with a face as blank as a manila folder, who has lived without women, whisky, cigarettes, or even regrets, and has worked for 35 somnolent years as a bookkeeper in the dingy Victorian offices...