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...Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain, and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 27, 1961 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain, and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...humor of this waggish tale depends principally on one fact: the slight but definite resemblance between Ustinov and his canine counterpart, portrayed by a swaybacked, dewlapidated Italian stage dog called Caligola. The spectator is continually reminded that inside the dog there is the villain, and the recurrent after-image of Ustinov doing all those doggy things is unfailingly good for an arf. Actor Ustinov, held in leash by Director Ladislao (Marcelino) Vajda, does pretty well for a mere human being, but of course he is not nearly so funny as Caligola. The dog wags Vajda's Tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Always Good for an Arf | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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