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...WRONG BOX. Bryan Forbes has a high old time directing Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, John Mills and Peter Sellers in a Victorian spoof of such varied subjects as vast fortunes, star-struck lovers, Bournemouth stranglers, venal doctors, missing bodies and orphaned cousins...
Plop No. 1 is a Garden of Eden spoof adapted from Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...
...traveling in a tiny, nuclear-powered submarine, chart a hazardous course through man's circulatory system. After several unexpected stopovers in the lung and inner ear, the microscopic crew reaches its disembarkation point: the human brain. THE WRONG BOX. Somewhere hidden among the plot machinations of this Victorian spoof is a wrong box, upon which most of the action hinges. The box is a coffin-unoccupied-although Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Mills and Ralph Richardson are more than anxious to find a suitable corpse to fill...
...teen-agers swarm into theaters to see a new spy spoof called Murderer's Row, it won't be for the sake of Star Dean Martin. The big draw is a hirsute trio called Dino, Desi and Billy. Only a couple of years ago, big Dino's 14-year-old son and namesake got together with Drummer Desiderio Arnaz IV, Desi's 13-year-old son, and Guitarist Billy Hinsche, 14-year-old son of a retired Beverly Hills real estate man. Now the boys have a 350,000-record hit (I'm a Fool...
...British comic-strip heroine, presumably intends to poke fun at the James Bond school of chic, sexy savagery. The damage done to the chosen target is negligible, but this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster. Assuming a knowing superiority over its prototypes, Modesty is less a spoof than a limp-wristed kind of fairy tale, witlessly cluttered up with homosexual malice, artsy gift-shop decor, and the same old gaggy gadgetry on which the Bondsmen have patents pending...