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...world's oldest profession and gambling the most profitable, what have you got when you combine the two? A gold mine-or so South Korea's ruling junta thought when it dreamed up Walker Hill, a sprawling, 156-acre complex of gaming tables and hot-pillow hotels designed to entice the tourist trade and, not incidentally, the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea. Out to Manila and Macao went the call for croupiers, and four Americans from Las Vegas moved in to manage the action. But when it opened up ten miles outside Seoul last week...
Photo Finish. Peter Ustinov, writer, director and star of this comedy, remains mute for the first five minutes of it. Propped up by a pillow, he half-sits, half-lies in bed, a snow wreath of great age framing his petulantly mischievous features. He looks like a cross between a grumpy polar bear and a tipsy Greek philosopher. As his equally ancient wife ("a nagger's nagger") frets, scolds, and pokes at him, Ustinov's countenance becomes a weather map of changing frustrations. His eyes ski off at rakish tangents. His jaw chomps erratically over what could...
...Breathless, is depressingly effective as a small-town broad abroad, the sort of disinhibited Amie most Frenchmen earnestly implore to go home. Françoise Moreuil, Seberg's ex-husband, shows a pretty flair for direction in his first film. He keeps the story bouncing from pillow to Proust, and he bathes scene after scene in a morning light of such glittering purity that the spectator is simultaneously delighted by the physical beauty and disgusted by the morbid decadence he sees. It's like being served a dead mouse glac...
...sometimes good for an arf, but Actor Darin and Actress Dee, who are Mr. and Mrs. in real life too, just sort of stand there most of the time and look like Tweedle Dumb and Twiddle Dee. And the production, like all of Ross Hunter's productions (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace), is in the cheapest kind of expensive bad taste. It's the sort of picture, in short, in which the heroine wears 32 costumes but only one expression: goo-goo eyes...
...Doench was appropriately repellent as Beckmesser, the malevolent town clerk whom Wagner created as a caricature of one of his most caustic critics-Viennese Music Critic Eduard Hanslick. The chorus and extras were drilled with spectacular precision, creating at the end of Act II one of the most convincing pillow-throwing, hair-pulling riots a Met Meistersinger has ever seen...