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They got Albert Finney to play Hercule Poirot. They also got, in alphabetical order as protocol dictates, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark and Michael York, all as murder suspects. And still they got nothing...
...first thing that seems to have escaped Director John Gielgud is his cast. It may have been too herculean a task to tone down Maggie Smith. But Gielgud ought to have elicited something more from John Standing than a replica of a rubber duck. As for the two who play the marital also-rans, Niki Flacks and Remak Ramsay, they are a tribute to only one known art-taxidermy...
This is no laughing matter. At least, it wasn't meant to be. But consider: a consortium of international dirty dealers, led by Sir John Gielgud, plans to manipulate the gold market by flooding one of South Africa's richest gold mines...
...Heartbreak Kid, is as funny as a schlemiel as he was as a Lothario; Bergen has never been more loose and natural; Mason is touching as a defeated man given a miraculous opportunity to close out life with a big win; and no less a figure than Sir John Gielgud is humorously on hand as the fussy manager of No. 11. This poised, stylish cast shines quite as impressively as the quarry in the vault. ∙Richard Schickel
...fact-film footage taken during the war between the Loyalists and the Nationalists. There have been a lot of film essays on the war in Spain, the most famous of which is Hemingway's The Spanish Earth; Rossif's covers the most ground of any of them. Sir John Gielgud and Irene Worth narrate. This is the third in a series of political movies to be presented by the Greece Action Group to help raise money for the junta's victims, and while Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship...