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Richard Todd plays a man-about-Edinburgh, a passionate travel agent who longs to be Scotch with a twist of Lemmon but more often looks stolid as a Rock. Todd has a prim fiancee and a yen for side trips. When his girl says no, he treks off to the Continent to find more accessible playmates, and for remembrance gives each a key to his flat. In Munich, he meets Nicole Maurey. In Venice, he nuzzles a handsome matron whose teen-age daughter gets the key by mistake. In the Alps, he gets stranded with blonde Elke Sommer, a scenic...
...pedantic Fat Man, obsessed with the "black bird." His great line: "Well, by Gad, if you lose a son it's possible to get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon," is perhaps the best in a movie full of great lines. Peter Lorre is suitably effete and prim as the foppish Joel Cairo...
...poetry and prose refuse to criticize. Those who wrote at that time knew that John Kennedy had faults, but they seem to have decided to let posterity uncover them. The poets are free in criticizing the society that produced Lee Oswald and the society that watched Kennedy's death. "Prim doormen bland and perfectly usual/Such memorial!" writes Lorenzo Thomas...
When Avedon lets up on the extreme of technique, he can catch a masterpiece of self-satire such as a group photo of eleven plump, prim, grim general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. His unaffected snap of a drooping, slightly disheveled Marilyn Monroe may be the most psychologically inward picture ever taken of her. But the slippery bias of the book is best shown by the inclusion of one picture: a so-so photo of Major Claude Eatherly, slyly captioned to perpetuate the oft-disproved legend that this disturbed man was the pilot who dropped the firs atomic...
...cloyingly clever never lands where the cartoon fauna come swiftly to heel. Although she pokes her pretty fingers into a world of sticky sweetness, she almost invariably pulls out a plum. All speeches and cream, with a voice like polished crystal, she seems the very image of a prim young governess who might spend her free Tuesdays skittering...