Word: chateauful
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...opening curtain finds Scuba Duba's hero holding a huge scythe in the middle of a Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance...
...pious cant about brotherly love as he tongue-twits Jews, Negroes, Babbitts, Frenchmen, Chinese, Yugoslavs, white liberals, black militants, wives, husbands, thieves and psychiatrists. From this last and presumably lowest shelf of humanity, the playwright produces a fatuously brain-shrunk specimen who brings his patient-paramour to the chateau. She in turn treats Manhattan's theatergoers to the sight of their first topless actress, but it must ungallantly be recorded that the lady's mammaries are pendulous...
...officer (Lee Marvin) a little lip and gets a fist in the mouth. We're for Marvin too: he's the one who puts the twelve convicts in fighting shape and communicates to them the we-row-together-or-we're-sunk notion. Their mission is blowing up a chateau-load of German generals, but the main problem is getting the convicts to work as a team. They're of course restless under authority. Still, Marvin--no convict, but not a sweet-talking guy--gives the officers in charge of him a little hell...
...does with the most romantic gesture of the 20th century. Next week the duke and his duchess will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their marriage, by every evidence still as devoted to each other as on the June day when they were wed in a friend's chateau in France. Queen Elizabeth has invited them to Marlborough House next month to attend the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Edward's mother, Queen Mary -the first official recognition ever extended the duchess by Buckingham Palace. Ironically, Queen Mary was unforgiving all her life of the woman she described...
...CHATEAU. French Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting in this fresh and funny farce about how in Gaul all marriages seem to be divided into three partners...