Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body. Here, de Broca displays the full range of his directorial talents. It is at once scary, funny, and filled with a series of excellently chosen and effective shots and camera angles. Nonetheless, the elements of suspense fall by the wayside as Antoine and a series of dumb jokes combine to cinch the case...
...missing something, but this time the titles capture most of its dialogue and all of its meaning. And though Dear Inspector is just another in a continuing series of films featuring "successful" women, it should not be stereotyped as such. Rather, it is an amusing and satisfying, if slightly dumb, romantic comedy in the true French tradition. Philippe de Broca is definitely back perhaps back to stay...
Clouseau's helpmate is a comic actress who once seemed to have quit movies altogether: Dyan Cannon. But after a four-year absence, she is reveling in the kind of role she plays best: a particularly tart (and tartish) genus of smart dumb blonde. Besides appearing in Panther, she nearly steals Warren Beatty's box-office smash Heaven Can Wait, playing the spacy wife who drips diamonds and drops crudities as she plots Beatty's murder...
...country. South Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Nasser Mohammed Hasani is described by one knowing U.S. observer as a "self-serving opportunist." Defense Minister Ali Antar, the third man in the country's new troika, is-in the words of this diplomat -no better than "a dumb thug...
...threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse of freedom...