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Flaming but unflappable, Clouseau rips off his trench coat, strides to the window and-wham! The chief inspector (Herbert Lorn) bursts through the bedroom door, the bedroom door clouts Clouseau in the suffix, Clouseau takes off as though there were lead as well as copper in his alloy. When next seen he is digging himself out of a gravel driveway two stories below and cringing as the chief inspector scornfully adds insult to injury. "Clouseau!" the old brute bellows. "You're off the case...
Talons & Nooses. From February to May, when the Lorn Ta-Phao wind blows from the southwest, the sky above Bangkok resembles a vast aerial Disneyland. Long (up to 25 ft.), hinged kites, shaped like kraits and cobras, wriggle sinuously in the breeze. Peacock and butterfly kites flutter their iridescent wings; owls roll their eyes, and paper hawks wheel and dive. Thai boys get their first kites about the same age that U.S. youngsters get their first baseball gloves, and most of them dream about growing up to be another Poon Yuvaniyom, who is the closest thing to a Mickey Mantle...
...obviously didn't. In the third screen version of the grisly Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux, the phantom as interpreted by Herbert Lorn looks about as dangerous as dear old granddad all dressed up for Hallowe'en in a mouthless lavender mask that could probably be duplicated for a dime at any corner candy store. And why does he wear a mask? Because his face is so horrible that if people saw it they would run out of the theater hollering eeeeeeeeeek? No. Because, it turns out, he still looks like Liberace...
Sellers is fired. His naivete proves negotiable, however. A member of the city council of Paris (Herbert Lorn) sets him up as the figurehead of Topaze Ltd.. a vast and rapidly diversifying holding company, mainly holding contracts with the Paris city council. He is approached by blackmailers and surrounded by swindlers...
Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, Nina Foch, John Dall, Herbert Lorn, John Ireland. Even in reserved-seat release at advanced prices ($1-50-$3.50 ), the movie will have to run for at least a year before it returns an investment ($12 million) that comes close to matching the average annual revenue of the Roman Republic in the time of Spartacus...