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...WRONG BOX. Directed by Bryan Forbes (King Rat), this black but buoyant British comedy features Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, John Mills and Peter Sellers as a group of improper Victorians scrambling after love or money in the gaslight...
...WRONG BOX. Directed by Bryan Forbes (King Rat), this black but buoyant British comedy features Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, John Mills and Peter Sellers as a group of improper Victorians scrambling after love or money in the gaslight...
...while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal family retainer so pickled in alcohol that-whatever the charge-he is ready to swear the butler did it. The vogue for sick screen comedy has obviously fallen into capable hands. Softened by the ruddy glow of the gaslight era, Wrong Box makes graveside humor...
...played Liz Taylor's older sister in National Velvet, Hurd Hatfield's girl friend in Picture of Dorian Gray, Charles Boyer's maid in Gaslight, the wayward Queen in The Three Musketeers, the Other Woman in State of the Union, Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii, Warren Beatty's mother in All Fall Down, and Laurence Harvey's mother in Manchurian Candidate...
...Aboard and Abroad (the latest edition of which was published in 1964), is more pretentious than Clark about his restaurants but hardly sounder. Olson's favorite restaurant "in all the world" rates only- in Michelin, and third on his Paris list is a copy of Chicago's Gaslight Club. Olson is both a dictator and a square (his idea of Paris fun is going to the Folies-Bergère). As far as he is concerned, the only possible way for any American to enjoy Europe is as part of the herd. For their first trip, Olson sends...