Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curious lethargy has settled on the most prestigious of Harvard's literary magazines. The Advocate, clearly awaiting some celestial go-ahead, has yet to publish an issue of undergraduate writing this year. The Scorpion, which last year out-sold all its competitors in Cambridge, has also been struck dumb; and in spite of the Boston Review's cry that it is "on the move," its second issue has not appeared. Only The Island and the Winthrop House magazine. The Lion Rampant, have produced two issues, excellent ones at that...
Coat hangs on a double frame-up. A dumb penguin of a waiter (Roddy Mc-Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted...
...what he has seen and what he has merely dreamed. When a killing apparently takes place next door, he hurls himself variously into 1) the chase, 2) the pneumatic embrace of Cover Girl Raquel Welch, whose acting ability ranges from busty to hippy, and 3) conversation with his dumb uncle (Eduardo De Filippo), who hasn't spoken to anyone in 50 years and communicates by blasting off homemade firecrackers. By the time the non-crime is non-solved, the movie may well earn itself a theaterful of non-viewers...
...perfect crime in this picture is described twice. First time around, the criminal (Michael Caine) confidently imagines how it will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner...
Forum has seven Graces. One is huge-eyed Donna Poitras, who overcomes her thankless ingenue part with a lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...