It is no disrespect to Steve Martin to hold up Jose Ferrer's performance for Hal Roach here. "Anyone, anyone at all?" He challenges everyone in the theatre. We have forgotten what a megaman this was. Imagine Stallone spouting poetry. We have lost a lot from the time of refrains "thrust home" to today's "I'll be back."
"I arrived by the last thunderbolt, a trifle singed by the ether." This ought to be the aim of cinema. This film comes close, passes but a moonbeam away perhaps. Bravo. I clap my hands three times, thus.
"I arrived by the last thunderbolt, a trifle singed by the ether." This ought to be the aim of cinema. This film comes close, passes but a moonbeam away perhaps. Bravo. I clap my hands three times, thus.
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