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HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Up in Vermont, three madcap characters are put through their paces by Director Adolfas Mekas, an East Village cinemaniac who pokes fiendish fun at every moviemaker from D. W. Griffith to Antonioni...
...JONES. The funniest movie in many a year. Henry Fielding's bawdy classic about vice in 18th century England has been pinched and patted into shape by Director Tony Richardson, with able assistance from Stars Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith...
...fact, one can almost smell Squire Western as Hugh Griffith plays him in the brimming and boisterous movie version of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. With his huge unsynchronized eyes and a face like a Sheffield hatchet, Griffith embodies magnificently one of Fielding's greatest complements to that category of human character that defies heaven and hell, having a kind of rampantly benevolent diabolism unique to the earth...
...this may have been type casting's finest hour, for 51-year-old Hugh Griffith is a laughing, brawling, roistering Welshman who lives on 13 acres in Warwickshire, where he and his wife raise dogs, hay, a cow and donkeys. For lunch he munches double brandies, and when he does a drunk scene-as in his new movie, The Bargee, in which he plays a lock tender on a canal-he warms up with bolt after bolt of black velvet (champagne and stout). "Did they think I could fake it with bloody tea?" he asks. Almost by obvious right...
Prurient Hindquarters. At least three-fourths of all actors started as the rear half of a stage cow, but Griffith is the only one who still complains that the front half "stank to high heaven." Also, he brought new dimensions to the role by continually rubbing the cow's hindquarters pruriently against the scenery. He was ultimately trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and he has been in demand ever since, interrupted only by World War II, when he was stationed in Swansea town and became a close drinking friend of Dylan Thomas...