Word: lothario
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...GIRL-GETTERS. Youth's go-go restlessness fills this British beach movie about a hot-weather Lothario (Oliver Reed) who sets his own rules for the midsummer nights and ultimately loses by them...
...weather Lothario gets his comeuppance from a free-thinking London model (Jane Merrow) who smoothly beats him at his own game. She lets him drive her Buick Riviera and invites him to her father's luxurious summer home, where one of her donnish young Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...
...routine check. The driver's license he produces isn't his. Double take, then slow burn. With carabinieri in tow, he roars back home, bursts into the bedroom to find his wife in intimo colloquio with her lover. While the cops collar the accidentally unlicensed Lothario, the husband picks up his naked wife, plunks her seat-first on the red-hot kitchen stove. Pffft...
...Roman rakes include: 1) a dolt who goes home with a prostitute and finds that she is married to an old school chum; 2) a sodden playboy whose haymate, ample Antonella Lualdi, tumbles out of bed just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste; 5) a ragman who waxes...
...baldheaded, spade-bearded little Lothario killed ten women is not shown, but his method of disposing of their remains is made clear: in the kitchen is a long black table, a meat grinder, and a small black stove. One victim sees the coal scuttles for her own cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic...