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ROSS HAS GOTTEN good performances from a cast studded with box-office attractions: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, Raquel Welch, James Coburn, James Mason, Joan Hackett, and Ian McShane. Coburn gives a fine performance as the masterminder of games, supremely certain that his guests will play. His innate arrogance masquerades as razor sharp charm...
...dock, he commands, "Smile, or whatever you people do for a living." It is ironic that Welch, the worst of the performers, should give the most incisive critique of the film. Arriving at the airport, she and her husband are beseiged by prying newspapermen. Her annoyed husband (Ian McShane) deftly shifts the bag he is carrying and belts an offending photographer in the jaw, knocking him down. Sensitive Raquel is affected. "Why can't we just go on a vacation like normal people?" Indeed...
...similar to one the week before that killed four people, including a 17-month-old boy when a furniture store was blown up. At Coalisland, a gloomy Catholic town 40 miles west of Belfast, members of the Protestant-dominated Ulster Defense Regiment mistook a 16-year-old boy, Martin McShane, for an I.R.A. gunman and shot him to death. In response, several hundred Coalisland youths rioted; four government vehicles were burned or wrecked...
...film's romance is the narrow province of the guide (Ian McShane) and an American businesswoman (Suzanne Pleshette). Between their mooning glances, the viewer is given a fast shuffle of Venice, London, Brussels and Rome. The scenes flick by like telephone poles seen from a moving window; Director Mel Stuart is more interested in drawing gross caricatures of his gawking, squawking, hamburger-hungry tourists...
...Hampshire bounced back only 45 seconds later to regain the lead on a 20-foot wrist shot by sophomore wing Mike McShane, and increased its lead at 17:15 when Bob Brandt drove past Gurry and beat Bruce Durno with a high wrist shot...