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Though Writer-Director Burt Kennedy often pitches for the brand of horse laughs that usually issue from Walt Disney's stable, most of The Rounders is high dry comedy. Ford and Fonda, clearly relishing their antiheroic roles, perform with the brisk assurance of men who have won the West so often that they know just how to spoof...
...Childs Gallery (169 Newbury St.) specializes in American painting of the nineteenth century but can come up with almost anything, from Walt Disney prints to Durers. This is a fine establishment which runs regular exhibits at which browsers are welcome...
Those Galloways, as depicted by Walt Disney's elfin helpers, demonstrate conclusively that not every rural New England community is a Peyton Place. These Galloways are wholesome folks, and their struggles to provide a sanctuary for migratory geese make the high-flying fancies of Disney's Mary Poppins seem quite worldly, if not downright cynical...
...tremendous gesture of the Los Angeles Times in starting a clean-up on movie advertisements [Feb. 12] should lead other movie producers to be as smart as Walt Disney and present family entertainment. Mary Poppins got me into the Chicago State-Lake Theater, and that was the first time in ten years I had been to the Loop for a movie. After you read the sexy advertisements for the movies, all desire to attend one dissolves. For years people on the Academy Award show have halfheartedly jested about movies dying. They are not really dying-they are committing suicide...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...