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...actors are plainly demoralized. Quinn, who plays a head-shaven Kublai Khan, just sort of sits there on his throne looking like Yul Brynner with a nasty case of jaundice. Welles, who plays a Venetian savant, is all dressed up to look like Leonardo da Vinci, but then he queers the pitch by muttering something about a navigational device he calls an "astrolobe." Horst Bucholz, who plays the acrobattling hero, obviously doesn't have the thighs for this sort of work, but he makes up for that with some of the niftiest karate ever seen in medieval Persia...
...Thich, pronounced tick, is a title meaning "venerable"; Tri Quang is pronounced tree kwong.) Wily and ruthless, Delphic and adept, he is the best of breed of a new kind of back room bonze. In the murky world of Oriental mysticism and Saigon's immemorial intrigue, these robed and shaven men have emerged as the new Machiavellis of the Vietnamese political scene. Tri Quang is unquestionably their prince...
...pseudo-sociology begins soberly enough with Philosopher Bertrand Rusell interviewing a band of clean-shaven war babies "who don't want to belong to any mass society; they want to be different." Different they are. In Italy, mindless young things don their party best and spark the fun at a swank resort by butchering a pig. "Will they do it again?" asks the narrator with elaborate seriousness. "If so, then the pig died in vain." In Switzerland, mixed nude skiing ap pears to be the latest kick. France has orgiastic "happenings," a homosexual nightclub, and parachutists with a marked...
...from much later in life to illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from any white woman, preceded by a signal apprising them of' the arrival of 'Evelyn Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood are vividly visual, from his nursery wallpaper (a pattern of medieval figures) to the beauties of the countryside and villages...
Fonda, who portrays a good-looking art student, seems to regret having to trade banalities with Miss Hugueny, whose perpetual adoring grin is so wide it looks as if her tongue is about to out of her head. He is impossibly clean-shaven, and both of them have teeth that glow in the dark...