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HELP! The Beatles-romping through poison gas, trap doors, flamethrowers and Buckingham Palace in a custom-made comedy that is long on sight gags, short on spontaneity, but just funny enough to keep the legend alive for another season. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. With Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo as the hero driven by tragic economic necessity, Italian Director Francesco Rosi rues the lot of a great bullfighter in a film of brutal and unnerving beauty...
HELP! The Beatles-romping through poison gas, trap doors, flamethrowers and Buckingham Palace in a custom-made comedy that is long on sight gags, short on spontaneity, but just funny enough to keep the legend alive for another season...
...boys zip in and out of settings that include Buckingham Palace and their own fun-house apartment, which is carpeted with wall-to-wall grass kept mowed by a gaitered rustic. Meanwhile, the color camera dances in and out of focus, zooms up and away, tilts with the music, splashes light like liquid, and cuts so fast from this to that that the effect is almost subliminal...
...meant to be more, even, than a state visit. Officially, it was the formal return of the visit by Germany's late President Theodor Heuss to Buckingham Palace in 1958. The glacial response he got then and the deep-rooted hostility many Britons still harbor toward their wartime enemies delayed the return engagement seven years, until German protocol officials had privately given up hope. Finally, last spring the Conservative government decided to find out whether the past was indeed past, and last fall incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson concurred. As Chancellor Ludwig Erhard put it, the royal visit...
...William Buckingham's merry set proclaims the play a pageant. An inspired Touchstone could have made it one If, in his first soliloquy, he had won the audience, the runnings about of the next two hours would have had coherence. But Peter Charles Johnson didn't have the necessary flair. He was convincing as an honest craftsman, but no more...