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...Russians Are Coming were as good as its best actor, the laughter might reach gale force. Sad to say, Director Norman Jewison and Scenarist William Rose, working from a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, seem too anxious, or too unsubtle, to sound the depths of a delightfully quirky human comedy. Instead they try too often for ding-dong farce, calling on a corps of hard-sell comedians to transform the townfolk into strident cartoons. Jonathan Winters as an addled police officer, Ben Blue as an irrelevant drunk, and Paul Ford as a sword-swinging Legionnaire are the chief offenders, since their...
Girl-Getters would be a better movie if Scenarist Peter Draper had put fewer words into his characters' mouths. Occasionally, they seem to be speaking less for themselves than for a troubled generation in toto. But Director Michael Winner masks the deficiency, coolly catching the feverish, gotta-keep-busy restlessness of youth on the go. Wherever the action is, from ballroom to boardwalk to a beachside spree in which a bride-and-groom are burned in effigy. Winner gives a commanding end-of-summer air to every moment...
Under Executive Producer Carl Foreman (The Guns of Navarone), Director James Hill and Scenarist Gerald L. C. Copley occasionally tie up a superior cat's tale with tinny sentimentalizing, first in some trumpery about shipping Baby Elsa off to captivity in Rotterdam, again in subtle but fairly insistent reminders that Mrs. Adamson craves an outlet for her maternal instinct. More often, though, the film treats animals with deep respect unspoiled by anthropomorphic cuteness; a baby elephant, a furry, gin-thirsty little hyrax (similar to a guinea pig) and a basketful of scrappy jungle kittens have natural charm enough...
Morgan! This wildly offbeat black comedy from Britain, adapted by Scenarist David Mercer from his own BBC television play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie...
Harper goes hunting instead, and his first stop is at an Alhambra-sized mansion ruled from a wheelchair by Lauren Bacall, the wife or widow of a kidnaped millionaire. Right at home here, lynx-eyed Lauren lets her voice burn like a laser into Scenarist William Goldman's polished-steel dialogue. "I only want to outlive him; I want to see him in his grave," she says. "People in love will say anything," answers Harper...