Make Mine Mink
Boarding-house
types do a good turn for a lady ex-con and like the feel of it, stealing furs
for charity as “Kensington types” and “superannuated
beatniks” and police officers in military-style operations, the girl is
off to marry her constable beau whilst they, warned off the fur racket, proceed
on to the Tower.
A beautiful,
rational analysis on quite another basis is carried out by Delbert Mann in Fitzwilly.
The Bulldog Breed
Lovesick swain
joins Royal Navy, becomes first man in space.
A continuation of
George Formby comedy on silent models with considerable breadth of interest,
including Jerry Lewis and Termite Terrace.
The secondary
point, argued at great length, is no university man Shakespeare, the primary
England expects.
The Intelligence Men
or
M.I.5 plus 2 equals 0
For
M.I.5, contre
SCHLECHT.
Judo
and the Ying Tong.
“Thank you,
Mr. Do Do.”
You were tired of
extra-flamboyant Mexican coffee bars with jumping frijol host, voilą, Cosmopolitan hols with Morecambe & Wise straight from the Cavendish
Laboratory.
“Have you
been here all the time, have I been chatting you up?”
SCHLECHT
signifies “only criminals making money through the Cold War, surely.”
Robert Mitchum is
in The Wonderful Country (dir. Robert
Parrish) at the Roxy, to boot, where Eric on a secret
rendezvous is seated between two lovebirds and Ernie is an usherette.
It ends at Covent
Garden in Swan Lake.
“A feeble
spy spoof,” says Time Out Film
Guide, “a long way short of a classic.” Halliwell’s Film Guide offers this, “inept and rather
embarrassing”.
The Early Bird
It begins with a
routine on the morning routine, or why England slept.
The war on
Grimsdale’s Dairy, a ten-street route in St. Godric’s, is
recognizable from Fuller’s Park Row and Dearden’s The
Smallest Show on Earth.
“Never as
funny as it ought to be,” says Vic Pratt of the BFI, a completely
reliable institution in that respect. Geoff Andrew of Time Out Film Guide
finds “agony for the adult viewer.” Halliwell says it’s
“overlong and mainly uninventive.”
Mr. Hunter of
Consolidated Dairies has his Parthian shaft, “you horrible little vicar
you!”