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Word: ratoffian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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Gregory Ratoff, in his last screen role-he died last December-briefly brings the show alive and, as the curtain line of his career, disgorges a magnificent Ratoffian mouthful: "You vill pe itten py ze volchers!" Otherwise, the most remarkable thing about the film is its sustained improbability. Greco looks as appropriate in a jungle as a crocodile on the Champs Elysées. The languidly sophisticated little love scenes are hardly the sort that a muscular truck driver and his lively young wife would get much satisfaction from. The landscape doesn't look African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly for the Vultures | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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