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...Millions--Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith are just fine in this gentle suspense-comedy written by Ustinov and Ira Wallach. At the ASTOR, Tremont St. near Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Millions has a bit of the wryness, a lot of closeups-and a welcome touch of humor besides. Peter Ustinov, who co-authored the script with Ira Wallach, plays Marcus Pendleton, a waddling con man with a surefire scheme" to steal millions by zonking a mammoth computer. He opens up storefront offices all over Europe and has the rigged machine send him large monthly checks. After seeding millions away all over the Continent, Marcus settles down to a life of financial bliss with his scatterbrained secretary (Maggie Smith) who imperils the whole operation by accidentally discovering large amounts of foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crime Without Punishment | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Act One (1963), the movie adaptation of the late Moss Hart's autobiography, traces the playwright's fruitful collaboration with George S. Kaufman, another giant of the Broadway stage. George Hamilton, Jason Robards and Eli Wallach star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Time Listings: Sep. 13, 1968 | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...third western, Leone went out and hired his first big-time actor, Eli Wallach. He plays Tuco, a Mexican gunman with so many prices on his head that he cashes them in by traveling from town to town with his partner Joe (Eastwood), who turns him in for the bounty money, then springs him at the last moment by shooting the rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...pair bicker and spat - then tenderly, or joshingly, make up; it is apparent that the glue of their domestic relationship is mutual need. That is reflected in the acting of Wallach and O'Shea, who are matchlessly mated to their roles. Exquisitely coiffed, Wallach is superbly narcissistic, as if he were modeling for an effete art agency. Fat, defensive, submissive, O'Shea would appear to have the lesser part, but he proves himself the better actor in creating an image of a patient, badgered man too good to be untrue to his bullying friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Staircase | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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