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...preliminary number on the Brattle card this week is a UPA cartoon version of James Thurber's fable for our time, The Unicorn in the Garden. An expansion of the theme ("Don't count your boobies before they are hatched") serves as the main event, with Humphrey Bogart compensating for the absence of technicolor...
...wickid screw what ever crep' down a prison corridor." Best scene occurs in a prison quarry, where an "accidental" blast blows Sergeant Crout to comical tatters and leaves him staring at the audience with an expression like the can't-win cat in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Best line belongs to Sellers. "Four years we've been gaoin' together," his girl (Liz Frazer) in forms him indignantly, "an' what've oi got to shaow fer it? Nothin'!" Replies Sellers with a smallish smirk: "You've been lucky...
...Grass Is Greener. A British comedy of manors is skillfully brought off by Gary Grant, as an earl who opens his stately home to the public and is cuckolded by Robert Mitchum, playing a cartoon American...
...cartoon appeared in The New Yorker several years ago depicting the grand council of a cannibal tribe seated around a fire. The chief was explaining: "We send out word that we're in a state of ferment. The Russians send technicians. Then the Americans send technicians. . . . When they're all here, we eat them...
...advertising agency, did not renew it, instead tried to negotiate a new one for fewer commercials. Y. & R. explained that even though televiewers tuned in to programs just to hear the Bert and Harry ad, they did not necessarily reach most beer drinkers. Since Piel's owns the cartoon's format, once their already prepared skits are run through they will either join the ranks of the permanently unemployed and unemployable or Bert and Harry will move over to new producers to continue at half speed. Bert and Harry's loyal viewers immediately began to complain. Answered...