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Senescent Saint "Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley-that he belongs in a laughing academy?" The old man is Joseph P. Kotcher. the academy is an old folks home, and the question is rhetorical. In Kotch, Walter Matthau plays a septuagenarian of shrewd independence; he has no intention of fading slowly into the sunset years. Because, among other offenses, he leaves the toilet seat up, Kotcher is eased out of his son's bickering household in Los Angeles and takes off for the Northwest, sightseeing and being lovable. Mostly being lovable. Wiping children...
...Kotch's lame-brain mission on the coast is to heist a bank at Los Angeles International Airport. His tiny task force bides time until all the security chaps for miles around are pooling sweat over the arrival of a Soviet Premier. Nothing goes off on schedule except the robbery itself, and that's a pittance, for it turns out that the hero might have got richer going straight...
...Heat on a Merry-Go-Round just fills the space between a frisky title and a tricky TV-comedy ending, but doesn't fill it with any revels that require a viewer's complete attention. The movie's hero is a lickerish, hipsterish con artist named Kotch, played by James Coburn in a flaccid reprise of his role as Our Man Flint. In prison, Kotch cranks up a steal-a-million scheme, a testament to the faith of moviemakers that a tale so often told must be good for something-even if it is no longer good...
...were hoping to break into the movies with a bit part in Columbia Pictures' Ell Kotch, originally scheduled for partial filming at Harvard, forget...
Haven would not say what Kotch, movie's hero, is supposed to be doing at Widener. He said that this Informa- would reveal too much about the of the movie. Chuckling enigmatically, he recommended seeing the film it is released next August to find