Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTY CARATS is a frothy French farce from Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, the team that wrote Cactus Flower. Julie Harris, as a twice-divorced damsel of 40 who is wooed and won by a lad nearly half her age, proves that love is a game for all seasons. As a tonic for middle-aged matrons, the play is so potent that Producer David Merrick may have to institute extra matinees to handle the crush...
Back in Manhattan, complications ensue. One night of love has inflamed this 22-year-old lad, who becomes the ardent wooer of the half-smitten, half-reluctant Julie. Julie's jovially addled mother. Glenda Farrell, thinks the boy is hanging around in order to court Julie's flaming mod daughter Gretchen Corbett, who is almost 18 and as old as Eve. From here on, as in all French farces, the doors take over: who comes through which door when triggers the laughs...
ALFIE FINDS "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD," by Charles Keeping (Watts; $3.95). From England comes one of the most beautifully illustrated books of the season-a simple story of a young cockney lad's adventure crossing the Thames by ferry on a foggy London afternoon. The paintings are brightly colored but muted by a haze that evokes the London atmosphere and a small boy's bewilderment...
Priapic Pranks. However, a rich lad's life is governed not only at home but also in a high-class English boarding school where golfing and keeping one's thoughts and actions dirt-free are more important than education. As the housemaster says, "When smuttiness comes smite it. And here we smite smut. Let there be no question about that. Our little golfers knock it for a loop...
...says the clean-cut lad to his pretty blonde companion, "it's been quite a week. I met you on Monday, I fell in love with you on Tuesday, I was unfaithful on Wednesday, we killed a guy on Thursday-and the week isn't even over yet." By the time the week, and Pretty Poison ends, the young man is in stir, Sue Ann is answering some rather pointed questions from the police, and the viewer will have seen one of the nicest, nastiest little crime films to come out of Hollywood in years...