Word: reelingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, after this mad beginning The Man slows down to a walk. Worse yet, TV's Telly Savalas (The Untouchables, The Witness), cast to type as the card-carrying hoodlum, almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What...
Even children-at whom this VistaVision lollipop is obviously aimed-won't be suckers enough to swallow all of the raspberry-flavored plot; and a dragged-in reel or two dealing with Debbie's hankering to act in a Broadway play instead of settling down to foster-motherhood is just one more of show business' painful salutes to show business. But there is still plenty of rough-and-tumble fun and some good character bits played by Eileen Heckart and Alice Ghostley. Anyhow, it's spring...
...moral of the movie is announced in the first reel. "If you live in merde" the corporal (Jean-Pierre Cassel) declares on a dreary day in 1940, "you are bound to die in it. I'm getting out." Since the corporal is French and the merde is a German prison camp, getting out presents a problem. The corporal provides a series of hilarious solutions. Blithely...
...wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that practically constitutes an insult to Jehovah...
...There's this princess, see." It is a line that has commemorated countless Hollywood script conferences from The Prisoner of Zenda to Roman Holiday. In reel life, the scenarist can find his Prince Charming at Central Casting. But in real life there are not enough princes-charming or otherwise-to go around...