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...lovers are Charles and Helene (Perkins and Marlene Jobert), the adopted children of a dotty millionaire tyrant named Theo Van Horn (Welles). Papa has used his fortune to re-create meticulously the year 1925. "It was an exciting time to be alive," he explains over his nightly gourmet repast, glaring balefully around the table at anyone who might offer a contradiction. Charles has to romp about the estate in knickers, but takes some solace in sculpting huge, brooding Olympian figures. Helene is something of a stiff, a quality convincingly conveyed by Miss Jobert, who shuffles through the film...
...brains to get out while the going is good. Charles and Helene confess their passion to him, and Regis receives the news with equanimity. He even helps the lovers deal with a blackmailer and generally tries to ease a situation further complicated by the fact that Helene is also Papa's wife. It all leads to murder, which is only to be expected from a film that is adapted from an Ellery Queen novel...
...Pacino is startlingly good in the role) is what gives the film its shape. Emerging a hero from World War II, graduating from Dartmouth with honors in math, he goes straight into Ivy Leavue blase--even picking up a cultivated, long-legged blonde from New Hampshire. Only when Papa Corleone is nearly killed in gangline fire does the son test his cunning and strength in one-to-one, life-or-death arenas. Michael turns to crime. His rationale: all twentieth-century life is political, politics is just power-playing, and one mode of warfare isn't more virtuous than another...
...ding dong papa from Harlem
...happy it's just like ringing a bell-Papa...