Word: louts
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...little spying on "James Bond's town" and gather background for his new counterespionage epic, Avvakum Zakhov Meets James Bond. Chunky Gulyashki made it no secret that Communist Superagent Zakhov, armed mainly with "strict logic and a superior mind," will try to defeat the capitalist lout in a "struggle to create a society of free and dignified people...
...miscast, has the style and quality for a more respectable trade. Worse still, added scenes and nonessential characters only give the viewers time to think dark thoughts, and in the duller stretches, some may wonder whether the to-bed-or-not-to-bed urgency that besets a working-class lout is really much different from the decision that Doris Day has faced so often and so bravely...
...terrible stillness of Thérèse's face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster. Her disaster is Bernard-superbly played by Philippe Noiret as a prudish bourgeois lout whose only concerns are family pride and the valuable pine trees on his estate at Argelouse. Living with him, Thérèse sees no way out until the day he falls ill from an accidental overdose of a medicine containing arsenic. She begins to get ideas...
...JONES. Director Tony Richardson has made the greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...potato pancake, flattery, a lazy lout...