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...theatrical!ty Steven Warner, as the Little Prince, is one of those faultless English child actors who seem incapable of a disingenuous moment. The rest of the small cast is made up of worthies the Little Prince meets on his trip past the lesser galactic bodies toward earth-Victor Spinetti as a historian, Clive Revill as a businessman who claims he owns all the stars, Graham Crowden as a general without a single soldier in his army Once on earth, the Little Prince meets a shy, friendly fox (Gene Wilder) and the aforementioned snake, played by Bob Fosse, who choreographed...
...might have looked if she worked Miami Beach at $100 a trick; Peter O'Toole, who appears to have dashed right over from the set of Man of La Mancha, still wearing his same makeup; and various excellent character actors like Vivien Merchant, Glynis Johns and Victor Spinetti. The film is actually brief, but it seems ruthlessly long, like being trapped in an endless high school assembly...
...Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist out of early Aldous Huxley. This hedonist with a literate leer acquires luxuriant narcissistic finesse from the performance of Victor Spinetti...
...Duke d'Escargot (played with prinking precision by Victor Spinetti) persuades the Corsican Brothers to help him overthrow Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith). As the Corsicans approach Paris in disguise, their boat is attacked by the revolutionaries. In the fray the peasant brothers filch their counterparts' violin case containing their noble credentials. After that, le deluge...
Shakespeare cared too much for his satellite roles to give the entire show to the stars, and it is as much the supporting players as the Burtons who give the Shrew vitality. Victor Spinetti, Cyril Cusak and Michael Hordern are a brilliant bunch of second bananas. Natasha Pyne, as Kate's sister Bianca, plays with a wide-eyed vanilla-pudding approach that deliberately lends Kate more flavor...