Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. TeenAgers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons...
...official U.S. entry at Cannes is The World of Henry Orient, due for festival screening this week. It is a genuine Hollywood product and, simultaneously, an exception to the norm: bright, breezy and brimming with fun, it doesn't celebrate sex. It thwarts it. The thwarters are two little girls who develop a crush on Peter Sellers and tumble after him all over town, inadvertently wrecking his sleazy love affairs...
Films about teen-agers almost never ring true, but Orient does. To find the girls and begin his extraordinary feat of verisimilitude, Director George Roy Hill reached into the unsuspecting halls of two Eastern girls' schools and plucked forth two genuine specimens. Their names are Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth...
...streak of sadistic cruelty which endeared the written Bond to all Harvard Walter Mittys appears in all its glory. We grin as the movie Bond slams the hood of a truck on one villain's hand. We snicker as he slaps luscious Daniela Bianchi around a compartment on the Orient Express. We cheer as he dumps a non-swimmer into the Adriatic with the valediction "This just isn't your...
...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT introduces Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth as a pair of antic New York juveniles scotching the adult delinquency of a lecherous concert pianist (Peter Sellers...