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...customary with Alistair MacLean, whose work inspired the picture, there is enough plot for three movies, not quite enough characterizations for one. Fox, as a demolition expert toting around a suitcase full of devilishly clever explosive devices, does do his best to compensate for a cardboard part with another of his amusingly off-center performances. Shaw is hearty, as was his custom in recent times, but Ford, bereft of the kind of writing that made comic capital of his essential sullenness in Star Wars, makes one of the gloomiest central figures in the history of adventure films. Richard Kiel...
Unfortunately, though all the clever touches and well-acted segments add up, they don't make for a first-rate movie. They can't overcome the plot; it isn't different or fresh enough. The bright colors of the gypsy world make this drab story good entertainment, nothing more...
King Zharko (Sterling Hayden), leader of New York's gypsies, has an idiotic son and a clever grandson. From the beginning it is obvious that Dave (Eric Robert), the grandson, will become king. It is equally clear, though, that he doesn't want any part of king-ship...
...absurdity, though, is not completely wasted--the scene makes you laugh, as does the movie. There are some very clever sequences which, more often than not, involve great gypsy rip-offs--Rosa and five-year-old Dave stealing a diamond, Rosa telling a fortune, Dave rigging an out-of-court settlement for a trick injury. Nor is it by chance that most of the funny scenes, and the touching ones, involve Rosa and Dave...
...Crimson hosts Brown tomorrow afternoon at the Walter Brown Arena. The game will be televised locally on Channel 7, starting at 2 p.m. The Bruins will probably bring their outrageously clever pep band to the contest, in hope of inspiring their second victory over Harvard this season. SCORE BY PERIODS HARVARD 0 1 2 -- 3 NORTHEASTERN...