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PETULIA. Julie Christie and George C. Scott get top billing in this ribald, ricocheting Richard Lester film of a love affair between a crusty, cutup doctor and a flouncy, flipped-out wife; the film's biggest star, however, remains the compelling city of San Francisco...
...young 'un in Sylacauga, Ala., which is just down the road a piece from Gantts Quarry, Jim Nabors was a regular cutup. He used to play tricks with his voice by hollering down drain pipes and talking through knotholes...
...wants to see whether power will pervert the poor deputy. Angelo, the once-Puritan deputy, threatens Isabel: Either you sleep with me or I'll have your brother killed for sleeping with that girl. Isabel, the heroine, with majestic certitude: "More than our brother is our chastity." A cutup from an Ex bench: "Come off it, sistah...
...lists. Her hero is a young, hypersensitive Southern Negro named David, a genius, jazz virtuoso and cripple, who makes his way from a dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive more from The Hardy Boys than from life; her Negro dialect is echt Amos 'n' Andy...
...should have been put in the can. Disguised as a surf saga, the movie has one good surfing sequence and little else. Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Tina Louise, Nancy Sinatra, Comedians Paul Lynde and Woody Woodbury struggle to get a foothold in the slippery story about a rich campus cutup and a poor coed. But the standout performer is a bearded beachnik called Kelp. He paints a small face on his chin, upside down. Then he covers himself with sand, leaving the bottom half of his face exposed, and spiels gags. The gags aren't funny...