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...from the classic characters of the whodunnit genre, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles, and Earl Derr Biggers's Charlie Chan are refurbished by Simon and his all-star cast, and introduced as Miss Marples (Elsa Lanchester), Milo Perrier (James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith) and Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers). These, "the world's greatest detectives" have been brought together under one roof at the invitation of Mr. Lionel Twain, a fiendishly eccentric, rich, and rather repulsive murder mystery...
...enjoyable is Peter Falk as the hard-boiled Frisco detective, Sam Diamond, whose uncouth manner provides an entertaining contrast to the cocktailparty elegance of Dick and Dora Charleston, played to perfection by David Niven and Maggie Smith, and the genteel prissiness of James Coco as the corpulent Belgian detective, Milo Perrier. Peter Seller's performance as the continually proverb-coining Sidney Wang is decidedly bland, however, which comes as a surprise and disappointment, since his impersonations are often so uproariously funny, and the Oriental bit has, in the past, been one of his finest. Seller's acting...
...DiMaggio looked good-slim, dignified, younger than his 61 years, very classy. When DiMaggio was in kindergarten, the other kids probably came up to him and said, "Joe, you look good." When DiMaggio visits the Louvre, if he does, the Venus de Milo probably waits until they are alone and whispers, "Joe, you look good." "Welcome back, Joe," said several fans who happened to run into him and to remember back to the '40s, when he was making impossible catches with the poise of Charles Boyer stealing jewels. After DiMaggio had thanked them and moved away, the fans said...
...tall, conventional-looking young man, who opens a rude and funny parody of the nation's newscasters with "I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not." His news breaks are bizarre: "Vandals broke into the Louvre and attached arms onto the Venus de Milo." His favorite long-running story is: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still seriously dead...
Another Mike Nichols film is Catch 22, an adaptation of Joseph Heller's apocalyptic novel. But how could anyone ever transfer the lunacy of Major Major Major Major, Yossarian, Colonel Cathcart and the Watergate figure of all time, Milo Minderbinder to the screen? Nichols tries, and fails. With Alan Arkin...