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Directed by RICHARD LESTER...
...Four Musketeers. The first part of this was fun, but this extension is a serious rip-off. Richard Lester knows his craft as a director; certainly this is a beautiful movie visually and it is fast. But too fast and skimpy. They filmed the whole of this to be released as one picture, but somebody decided they could milk us for two. Sneak in the back and have a nice time, but the self-respecting ought not give those bastards the satisfaction of paying $2.50 for excess footage...
...form is fast bedroom farce. George's women swirl in and out of the shop where he works as resident genius and prima donna, in and out of the addled life he can barely control. Jackie (Julie Christie), a former girl friend, is currently the mistress of Lester (Jack Warden), an investor whom George hopes to hit for money to open his own shop. Meanwhile, George is conducting a fairly frenzied dalliance with Lester's wife Felicia (Lee Grant). His more or less regular girl of the moment, a model named Jill (Goldie Hawn), just tries...
...Lester Brown, who is one of America's best agricultural economists, does not try to cajole, shock, or threaten his audience into action. He does not preach apocalypse, or even seem to fear it. Instead, he warns that standards of living around the world must fall if the world's population keeps doubling every thirty-five years. In The Human Interest offers a sketch of today's population problems and a prescription for stabilization...
...floor and lies there clutching his sides with laughter. Between takes he lurches into an imaginary swordfight with one of his actors. Minutes later he is airily winging it through Gene Kelly's Singin 'in the Rain dance sequence, crying at top volume, "Fellini and Dick Lester are great directors, but are they tops in taps...