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...Like Money. Peter Sellers in a new film version of Marcel Pagnol's Topaze-a little slow, but fey and funny...
...Like Money. Peter Sellers in a new film version of Marcel Pagnol's Topaze-a little slow, but fey and funny...
...Like Money (Dimitri de Grunwald; 20th Century-Fox) is the fourth movie version of Marcel Pagnol's supremely cynical play Topaze. John Barrymore once did the leading role in a Hollywood version, and Fernandel has done it in French...
...Green Mare (Zenith-International) is what happens when the French take another whack at Fanny. Like that famously funny film first made by Marcel Pagnol, The Green Mare is a comedy of barnyard humors adapted from a ribald but rusé ironic novel by Marcel Aymé. Regrettably, Director Claude Autant-Lara lacks both Pagnol's touch and Aymé's intensity. The Green Mare ain't what she used to be. Nevertheless she is, as the French say, green-which means, as the Americans say, blue. The plot, for example, involves a Rabelaisian family feud...
UNIVERSITY: Joshua Logan, who a lot of money from a good musical based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, has tried to do the same thing in Hollywood and has failed--at least, aesthetically. FANNY is genuine four handkerchief family-style mediocre entertainment- starring everyone that should appear in a Hollywood musical about foreigners: Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Bucholz and Maurice Chevalier. Afternoons and evenings...