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...flash the musician becomes a bugler, off to sound the charge on some sultan's daughter (Gina Lollobrigida) in Algeria. But after lolling awhile with Lollobrigida, he meets the old man again, and is off to 1790 for some wig-nuzzling with a willing aristocrat (Magali Vendeuil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...lady waiting in 1900, in 1830, and in 1790 proves to be so much like what happens today that the composer is cured of his nostalgia and decides to risk being contemporary-a risk considerably sweetened by the charms of the garage-owner's daughter (also Magali Vendeuil). "Perfectly useless," Director Clair calls his picture, but that, of course, is the point of it. Besides, as James Joyce showed, woolgathering can be a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

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