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...OTHER aspects of the picture fit just as comfortably into this tension-releasing pattern. Michael York's D'Artagnan would be romantic and gallant in a normal film like this, but here he never gets a chance to set his chin and gaze into the horizon because the comedy keeps him too busy being wide-eyed and gulpy. The wonderful period sets, costumes and scenery (filmed in Spain, with horses and falconry and royal picnics galore) might have seemed heavy and historically meticulous except that there's always something faintly ridiculous going on, which never distracts because the plot keeps...
...broke out. When Svejk is drafted despite his rheumatic legs, he borrows a wheelchair, crutches and an old army cap, gets himself wheeled through the streets of Prague on his way to the induction station, crying "On to Belgrade!", and is apotheosized by the official press as the most gallant of volunteers for the great glory of the Austro-Hungarian cause. Thereafter he contrives to misplace both his papers and his battalion-which keeps him from having to fight the Serbs or the Russians for weeks and weeks...
...Marshall Plan. He tends to be stronger at invoking duty than at discussing practical details. But his insistence that the U.S. must try to do out of a sense of responsibility what once it tried to do out of a sense of ambition is gallant as well as quaint. Can post-Viet Nam America manage what he asks, even if it is willing? Corson is really certain of only one thing: if Americans survive by meaner stratagems, their lives will not be worth living...
...frustrated gallant with Micawberish business instincts," Jones was raised in Hollywood, where he worked occasionally as a child extra in Mack Sennett comedies. After graduation from art school, he supported himself by drawing pencil portraits for $1 apiece at a friend's bookstore. From this he drifted into animation, more or less moseying up through the ranks of animation's curious technocracy (eel washer, painter, inker, in-betweener), and began directing...
...because Guccione refuses to photograph models for Penthouse who have appeared nude elsewhere. He also insists that his models give their real names for publication. Does he feel he was snookered into running pictures of a Playboy and Out veteran, and a falsely named one at that? Says the gallant Guccione: "She belongs to the world...