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...China clinging to the roots of flowers and vegetables shipped to Hong Kong. Says Dahl: "If enough Americans buy a square inch of Red China dirt, before long we'll have removed the entire country from under their noses. What I'm proposing is one of the sneakiest conquests in the history of the world." He adds: "This is the year of the dirt-not the horse or the cow or the turkey." Well, maybe the turkey...
...given most of the good lines. "A Boche!" he bellows indignantly when Sellers, setting a trap for the I.P.O. Gang, suggests a German safecracker for a ?250,000 bank robbery. "See 'ere cahn't we give this job to a British lad?" But Sneaky Pete has the sneakiest line in the show. Preoccupied with his problems, he waffles into his flat one evening and whoops absentmindedly for his mistress...
...Waltz of the Toreadors, the sixth Sellers picture released in the U.S. so far this year, illustrates still another artful dodge of the world's sneakiest Sellersman: he apparently never hesitates to make a poor picture, perhaps on the theory that a brilliant talent is like a diamond necklace-put it on a beautiful woman and who sees it? put it on a turkey and who doesn...