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...DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Yves Montand comes on strong as a sardonic, Gallic Bogart in this lively little French farce directed with wry mockery by Philippe de Broca...
...DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Yves Montand comes on as a sardonic, Gallic Bogart in this lively little French farce directed with wry mockery by Philippe de Broca...
Devil by the Tail, as in his previous films, the French director bends the truth but never quite breaks it, and makes sure that even during its wildest moments his comedy keeps a straight face...
...years, Montand has been living two lives. Onstage he is a singer of romantic ballads and risque street songs. Onscreen, in such films as La Guerre Est Finie and Live for Life, he is as grim and bitter as Humphrey Bogart. In The Devil by the Tail, he takes his stage personality out of the trunk and refurbishes it with a series of warm interludes and witty tongue-in-cheek pantomimes. As the marquise's daughter, Maria Schell also alters her usually grim image with a comically erotic performance and an exuberantly uplifted bosom...
...word farce comes from a Latin verb meaning "to stuff." Too often film farces are crammed with top-of-the-lungs comedians and bottom-of-the-gag-file comedy. The Devil by the Tail fills its hour and a half with sly performances and wry wit. It is the stuff of life-and of laughter...