Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parody film around the story of a naive chicken farmer named Jack Armstrong who comes to New York to open a coffeehouse. Jack's refusal to pay off the various authorities was meant to echo Marlon Brando's fight with the Longshoremen's Union in On the Waterfront. The touch is far too heavy, and what could be somewhat effective humor gets bogged down in weary detail...
...blood as English, seemed the model monarchs for such an undertaking.* Yet somehow the visit got off to a chilly start as heavy rains and mothball size hailstones pelted the top-hatted German Cabinet, waiting with President Heinrich Lübke and Erhard for Elizabeth's airplane to touch down at the Bonn-Cologne airport. The sun came out before she landed, but squishing along the soggy red carpet, and then splashing through puddles to inspect her 270-man guard of honor from the German air force, navy and army, the Queen grimaced with distaste...
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Lithgow also designed the set, which looked only functional at first. The platforms and curtains allowed for a wide variety of dancelike maneuvers and no doubt cost very little. But Lithgow stuck in one whimsical touch. As Pancrace he winds up, at one point, behind the curtain, still arguing with himself. He finishes his speech with a flourish, and just his hand appears above the curtain...
...wonder about John Ross. He hasn't got Lithgow's perfect timing or Erhardt's acid touch, but I've seen him be a lot funnier than he was here. I think the problem was that as Geronimo he hadn't much to hold on to. When he has a characterization to work out he can do it skillfully. Lacking that, he seemed merely to focus on the sound of his words and the sweep of his bows, and never evoked a solid character...