1997 - THE EDGE, pretty good adventure film

The Edge seems kind of forgotten in the action/adventure film world, it was photographed in Alberta and British Columbia in some spectacular locations.  It has some good actors, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, L.Q. Jones and model Elle Macpherson.  Most importantly the writer of The Edge is David Mamet a master of tough guy talk and clever plotting.

The Edge is basically a survival tale with an airplane crashing in the Canadian wilderness leaving a billionaire played by Anthony Hopkins, a fashion photographer played by Alec Baldwin and Baldwin's assistant Harold Perrineau, the survivors of the airplane crash.  As the trio attempts to make their way back to civilization they are pursued by a man eating Kodiak bear. It's sort of Jaws in the woods as it were. The twist in this story is that Hopkins is a bookworm who has never been in the wild but has read so many books he is the best prepared to deal with their situation.

 

Mamet also throws in a subplot of Hopkins figuring out that his wife played by Elle Macpherson is having an affair with Baldwin and that Baldwin may be planning to kill him in order to get his wife and  his money.

 

The performances are at a high level particularly Hopkins as the bookworm.  Mention should be made of the trained bear called Bart.  Bart actually has 21 "acting" credits on his IMDB page ranging from this film to stuff like, The Great Outdoors, 12 Monkeys and Legends of the Fall amongst others.  Bart isn't a Kodiak bear, real Kodiak bears have very long claws and no one in their right minds would be performing with one of them.

The Edge was produced by Art Linson who had a track record of making interesting films.  They weren't always commercial successes but they certainly weren't the usual cookie cutter films that Hollywood likes to make.

The running time is 117 minutes.

1937 - WEE WILLIE WINKIE, one of John Ford's stranger films

There are many famous director actor collaborations.  Scorcese and DeNiro, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, John Ford and John Wayne.  But leave it to Darryl F. Zanuck at 20th Century Fox to team macho director John Ford with 30's child star Shirley Temple.  When a director was under contract to a film studio he frequently didn't have much say in what project he would be working on.

There are reportedly several versions of Ford's reaction to working with Shirley Temple, but you can be sure he wasn't exactly pleased about it.  Much to the surprise of everyone involved in this production including John Ford, he got along very well with Shirley Temple.  Wee Willie Winkie had a fairly large budget for a Shirley Temple film and Ford was able to infuse much of his style into this film.  While working with Shirley Temple, Ford discovered that for an eight year old girl, she was unusually talented and focused on her work.  She worked well with her co-star Victor McLaglen and didn't seem to have an issue with Ford's notorious abuse of actors.

 

Wee Willie Winkie is still a Shirley Temple film when all is said and done although a rather superior one.  Ford shows his mastery of action with one great battle scene.  The black and white photography is impressive and I have to say overall this is an entertaining film.  Darryl F. Zanuck's instincts in matching Ford and Temple paid off, the film is one of her better efforts and it was a successful money maker for the studio. If the film has a low point it's the subplot with the young lovers which the viewer has to endure.  Fortunately they aren't in much of the film.

The film was written by Julien Josephson, Ernest Pascal and  Mordaunt Shairp.  The running time is 100 minutes.

2023 - FAST X , "This is the song that never ends."

Number 10 in the gearhead action espionage series.  Fast X isn't good and it isn't bad, if just unfolds with the same old stuff as usual.  Our hero Dominic Toretto ( Vin Diesel pushing 56 years old) is the leader of our team of good guys for hire.  By now the cast in the series has completely swollen with so many characters from the various films that it's difficult to remember who was introduced in what film not that it really matters anymore. Characters who die come back to life, new family characters are introduced in this case Rita Moreno as great grandmother Toretto for no apparent reason.

Charlize Theron is "Cyper" the super bad gal that the Toretto gang has been doing battle  with in several films. For the flimsiest of plot points she becomes an ally in their fight against a real bad guy Dante Reyes played by Jason Momoa.  Jason Momoa is even worse than Charlize Theron and Momoa plays him like some kind of weird cross dressing or bisexual or gay super villain, who can tell.  Momoa is seeking revenge for the death of his father which occurred in Fast Five, (2011 release), which was 12 years ago, talk about holding a grudge.

 

Anyway we are off almost immediately with the now typical over the top car stunts and action pieces as the gang rushes around the globe tying to save Dominic's son who first showed up in The Fate of the Furious, (2017 release).  You might as well throw into the cast mix Brie Larson, Helen Mirren, Jason Statham, Scott Eastwood, Jordana Brewster, Gal Gadot, John Cena  Dwayne Johnson, Pete Davidson the late Paul Walker's daughter and in the typically thankless role as Dominic Toretto's wife Michelle Rodriguez.  All of these cameos and short parts only add length to a film that is already incredibly overlong.

 

The film ends in the great tradition of 1930's cliffhanger serials. However the producers of Fast X certainly didn't learn any lessons from those old serials because each chapter in those old films ran about 30 minutes.  The film has a whopper of a 141 minute running time.  It will be interesting to see if Universal Studios films Fast XI or whatever they are going to call it, this film was not the financial blockbuster the studio was hoping for.

The film was written by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin.  Lin was the original director of this film but he walked off the set a week into production.

1941 - SWAMP WATER, Jean Renoir's first American film

Jean Renoir, one France's most important filmmakers was invited by Darryl F Zanuck to make a film in Hollywood.  Renoir was a filmmaker who took his time with story and actors,.  Considering Hollywood's production methods, Renoir was in for a big disappointment.  There are numerous memos from Zanuck complaining about Renoir's slow pace and what he called his over attention to detail.

The film is set in Georgia in the Okefenokee Swamp, but other than a few opening shots the film is entirely filmed back in Hollywood at the Fox Studios.  For a film about rural people living in Georgia the film is cast with the usual bunch of Hollywood actors.  Dana Andrews, Walter Brennan,Walter Huston and Anne Baxter.  Ward Bond and Gunn “Big Boy” Williams also show up.  Nothing like using privileged rich Hollywood actors to bring authenticity to a film about poor rural southerners.

I spite of Renoir's battles with Zanuck and the Fox executives the film was one of their bigger moneymakers that year.  However Renoir was obviously not happy with the way it turned out.  The film has a few what I would call poetic touches but for the most part this is the usual Hollywood hokum about the"little people."

 

Written by Dudley Nichols, the running time is 90 minutes.

2004 - I HEART HUCKABEES, so called existential comedy missing the comedy part.

 Looking at the career of David O Russell for a few moments.  Russell was an independent filmmaker who achieved critical notice with his "incest comedy," Spanking the Monkey, he followed this up with another quirky comedy about adoption called Flirting with Disaster.  Both these films achieved decent reviews and more importantly made money since that's about the only thing they care about in the movie business.  Russell was able to get financing for his Iraq war film Three Kings. The film had big time Hollywood star George Clooney, Ice Cube and Mark Wahlberg.  Another critical and financial success.  But the signs that all was not well in movie land were beginning to show.  Russell was apparently under some pressure with a studio financed film and found himself in conflict with Clooney over his treatment of the film crew.  Still in Hollywood a money making film is a money making film which allowed him to obtain financing for this film.

Apparently Russell had a lot of big thoughts running around in his head so he decided to share them with the movie audience.  Russell wrote a screenplay about an environmentalist  in a life threatening crisis who hires a team of "existential detectives."  They follow him around and at the same time the environmentalist is also followed by a French woman who is a nihilist.  I actually had to look this stuff up on the internet to understand it.  The film spends a lot of time with endless philosophical discussions about these two points of view while working in quirky comedy bits.  This is just the kind of stuff a paying audience want to see when they go out to a movie.

 

The screenplay is a complete head scratcher for me but it attracted a very good cast, Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are the existential detectives.  Isabelle Huppert is the nihilist, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman and Naomi Watts show up. Mark Wahlberg is a philosophy spewing fireman who hits people in the face with a pan or something is in it.  But it should be mentioned that a pattern of fighting with the actors during production was beginning to reoccur.

 

The film to put it mildly is what happens when a pretentious artistic director is allowed to run amok.  I'm not sure what Russell or the producers expected from this film but it's safe to say Russell didn't work for six years after this.  Since this film Russell has been involved with more commercial projects, a fight movie, a love story etc.

The screenplay was by David O. Russell and Jeff Baena, the running time is 106 minues of a "fundamental search for truth."

1978 - STUNT ROCK, a tribute to a stuntman

Stunt Rock is for the most part barely a film.  It seems to have been made has a tribute to one of Australia's best and probably craziest stuntman, Grant Page.  What plot there is in this film has Page traveling to America to do stunts for some lame action TV series.  At the same time Page visits his cousin who is part of a heavy metal rock band called Sorcery. Sorcery's shows are full of elaborate magic stunts in some kind of good vs evil thing musical act.

Page hooks up with two women, one a reporter played by Margaret Trenchard-Smith, the director's wife and actor Monique van de Ven playing herself.  Monique van de Ven was associated with over the top Dutch director Paul Verhoeven in several films.  I frankly have no idea what these two women are doing in this film.

 

Stunt Rock is basically film clips of Grant Page performing stunts in various Australian films.  Page seems to have a thing about being set on fire as a number of stunts are of him running around while burning up.  This stuff is inter cut with musical numbers from Sorcery for no apparent reason.  Most of the stunts are shown in split screen.  The director Brian Trenchard-Smith has admitted that the stunts were filmed in 16 mm and would have looked very grainy blown up in to 35 mm.  For this film the decision was made to go with split screen.

Stunt Rock apparently has sort of a cult following but it seems more like someone's home movies edited together in an effort to pass it off as a feature film.

The film was written by Brian Trenchard-Smith and Paul-Michel Mielche Jr., although saying this film is "written" is really stretching it.  The running time is 86 minutes.

2001 - TOWN AND COUNTRY, disappointing sex comedy

Somewhere in this rather disappointing and frequently silly sex comedy are some  decent ideas for a funny film.  Town and Country is the notorious film that cost $90 million dollars and only brought in $10.5 million dollars, obviously a financial disaster.  The film got terrible reviews although I suspect most of the reviews focused on the cost of the film and not the film itself.

Warren Beatty sort of plays a character modeled after himself, an aging Lothario still trying to bag every woman that he can.  In the film he's married to Diane Keaton.   Goldie Hawn and Gary Shandling are their best friends who are also having marital problems.  Shandling has decided he's gay after about 20 years of marriage. Andie MacDowell plays one of Beatty's attempted conquests who has a couple of bizarre parents played by "Moses" himself Charlton Heston as her father and a stage actor Marian Seldes as her mother.  These three are the funniest and most absurd characters in the film.

 

Had the screenplay maybe been thought through with a little more care,  it could have been an American version of Ophul's La Ronde but unfortunately it was not to be.  Beatty seems game to send up his image as the consummate Hollywood ladies man who is starting to age out of the role.  Gary Shandling, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton are all seasoned professionals when it comes to comedy, but that old chestnut, the disappointing script let them down. I was rather surprised by this as besides being an actor Warren Beatty is an experienced producer/director and must have known that this film had serious problems.

 

As it is, there are laughs to be had for the most part.  However I hate to jump on the bandwagon but they really shouldn't have spent so much money on what could have been a decent comedy.  It you want to read about the production history of this film, it's all over the internet.

Written by Michael Laughlin and Buck Henry, the running time is 104 minutes.

2009 - VENGEANCE, a very good revenge thriller

Another film in  the oversaturated "seeking revenge for killing my family" genre, or Death Wish territory if you like.  What redeems this film is the very good direction from one of Hong Kong's best directors Johnnie To.  The action scenes are particularly well done and there are some interesting spins to the usual revenge plot lines found in these films.

The film has an interesting cast Johnny Hallyday a French performer is the man out for revenge., He has some issues to deal with in his own life.  Anthony Wong who I think was in about every Hong Kong action film is a hit man assisting Hallyday.  Gordon Lam from the Infernal Affairs films is another hit man, and Simon Yam yet another prolific performer is the chief bad guy.  The one thing you have to say about these Hong Kong performers is that they don't let the grass grow under their feet, these guys are always working.

 

To comment on the plot or some of the basic situations in the film would spoil a really great action film.   Johnnie To is one of Hong Kong's best filmmakers and has for the most part made consistently good films throughout his career.  Highly recommended

Written by Wai Ka-Fai, the running time is 109 minutes.

1974 - SUPER STOOGES VS THE WONDER WOMEN, look at the title

 Back to the silly movie posts.  With a title like Super Stooges vs the Wonder Women the viewer should instantly be aware that this is a comedy.  This Italian film made in association with Hong Kong studio Shaw Brothers is in the best tradition of silly, make that very silly action comedies.  How the Italians and the Shaw Brothers got teamed up to make this film is probably a story in itself. 

The Super Stooges are three goofballs with some special fighting abilities, Marc Hannibal is Moog who is a real strong guy, people break furniture over his head and he walks through walls without suffering any kind of injury. Yueh Hua is Chung who for some reason is wandering around rural Italy.  He's a martial arts expert.  Finally we have Aldo Canti who is a character named Dharma II, he's good at jumping off mountains and doing back flips he wears a mask for some reason.

 

These three guys team up to take on a tribe of Amazons who are terrorizing the local villages.  Needless to say the women all dress in short skirts or two piece fighting outfits.  There's much fighting and the musical score has lots of funny noises to emphasize the goofiness of the whole film.  I will say that the film moves along but it seems awfully silly even for this genre.

 

The movie is directed by Alfonso Brescia. Some of his previous credits include, Battle of the Amazons, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Battle of the Stars and War of the Robots, well you get the picture.  This can basically be watched while you are cruising the internet on your cell phone or something like that.  In the end the whole thing is probably just a footnote in the world of silly action comedies.

Written by Alfonso Brescia and Aldo Crudo, the running time is 94 minutes.

1978 - SHE FELL AMONG THIEVES, entertaining old school thriller

This entertaining throwback to a 1930's type of British thriller, i.e. the stuff Hitchcock and Carol Reed did, has a good cast to recommend it.  Malcolm McDowell is the intrepid hero Richard Chantos.  While vacationing in France the French Pyrenees he stumbles onto a plot to rob a heiress out of her considerable fortune.  With the help of the British foreign office he springs into action.

 

The heiress is played by one time Disney star Karen Dotrice who today is chiefly remembered as Jane Banks from Mary Poppins.  Dotrice is in full damsel in distress mode in this film.  The rest of the cast is made up of the usual British supporting players.  However the standout performance in this film is from Eileen Atkins one of those distinguished grand dame British performers who show up in films to class the show up.  Atkins plays a character called "Vanity Fair." She's a villainous schemer in the grand tradition of over the top evil doers. 

 

The film consists of  Richard Chantos matching wits with Vanity Fair in a series of amusing encounters.  In this type of story tone is everything, the actors play the whole thing fairly straight and the film clips along at a decent pace.  If you like your mystery/adventure stories with a heavy dash of British stiff upper lip stuff you should enjoy this film.

 

The film was written by  Tom Sharpe, the running time is 79 minutes.

2003 - A MIGHTY WIND, clever spoof of early 60's folk music.

The third film in sort of an unofficial trilogy by Christopher Guest that started with Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show. I'm not counting This Is Spinal Tap since that was directed by Rob Reiner not Christopher  Guest.

A Mighty Wind is a gentle satire of folk music groups which were popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's.  The groups are now kind of past their prime to put it mildly.  A PBS like network stages a concert for this bunch of folk musician oldsters probably to be shown during one of those endless pledge drives they were always hammering the TV audience with.

Three groups are featured, "The Folksmen" playing some ridiculous song called "Old Joe's Place" which is about a greasy spoon diner somewhere in middle America.  "The New Main Street Singers" are a group of very white musicians fronted by a husband and wife who used to be a porno star. They also happen to be members of a witches coven.  

Then there is a folk duo called "Mitch and Micky" who were apparently involved in a relationship until they acrimoniously split up. Mitch is now clearly suffering from emotional problems while Mickey has moved on and married a catheter salesman for a medical distribution company.  Their plot line is actually kind of touching.

Christopher Guest by this point had developed a stock company of performers.  Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, John Michael Higgins and as "Mitch and Micky,"  Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy.  Many of the performers wrote their own songs for this film.

A Mighty Wind doesn't have they real sharp satirical bite of Waiting for Guffman or Best In Show, but it's very entertaining in it's own way.  Christopher Guest seems to have great affection for this collection of over the hill musicians.

The film was written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy. the running time is 92 minutes.    

1989 - DO THE RIGHT THING, one of Spike Lee's best films

One of Spike Lee's best films.  Do The Right Thing examines the mistrust, resentment and confusion in the interactions between white and black Americans.  Spike Lee's film was amazingly prescient in 1989 and sadly still very relevant for 2023.

Lee was really the triple threat with this film, he wrote, directed and played a featured role as the flawed protagonist Mookie, a delivery man working at a local pizzeria in Brooklyn.  Danny Aiello is the owner of the pizzeria who has been in the neighborhood a number of years and doesn't have a clue about the lives of the people living around him.

 

Spike Lee put together an excellent cast, Samuel Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Bill Nunn and Rosie Perez to name just a few.

 No film is perfect and probably the worst scene in the film is the love scene between Lee and Rosie Perez which involves ice cubes of all things, it's very silly stuff and not very erotic.

Credit on this film should also be given to Ernest Dickerson who did the photography and Lee's longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown.  Do The Right Thing is an excellent film from a dramatic and technical stand point.

The running time is 120 minutes.

1957 - THE VAMPIRE, decent B movie horror film

I guess the moral of the film The Vampire is don't mix vampire bat blood into your medication as the town doctor is about to find out the hard way.  The film is sort of a vampire film but it's really just another version of Robert Lewis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde.

 

For a low budget film of $115,000 the producers Arthur Gardner, Jules Levy and the director Paul Landres did a fairly good job of stretching their budget.  Paul Landres mostly did film and TV westerns but he managed to work up a couple of decent suspense moments in this film.  One scene in particular shows the vampire infested doctor stalking our heroine Coleen Grey at night, Landres photographed some good tracking shots during these scenes.

 Obviously the cast isn't the top of the Hollywood heap.  John Beal was in a lot of A and B film productions.  Coleen Grey had her big break in Howard Hawk's Red River as the woman John Wayne leaves behind.  But her career really never big time took off.  Then there's every film buff's favorite Kenneth Tobey.  He is chiefly remembered as one of the military men fighting off the original Thing. Tobey had a long career in film and TV.  He was a favorite of director Joe Dante who hired him for parts in The Howling and the Gremlins, films shot towards the end of his career.  Tobey was always a welcome presence when he showed up in a film or TV show.

The film was written by Pat Fiedler,  a rare woman writer who worked in the B movie genre.  The running time is a brisk 75 minutes.

2023 - THE FLASH, a jumbled mess of yet another superhero movie

 Like the plate of spaghetti noodles that Bruce Wayne shows Barry Allen as a way of demonstrating the various twists and turns of the different timelines in the multiverse, the screenplay for The Flash drowns in a lot of plot, subplots, Easter eggs, surprise actor appearances and overblown action sequences.

When I was a kid you could read a DC comic in about 10 or 15 minutes, the plot lines were simple and the action was direct.  This superhero story comes in at 144 minutes and just refuses to end. I suppose there is some entertainment in seeing 71 year old Michael Keaton put on the bat suit again but his part is on the shall we say small side.  At least he does better than the actor playing Supergirl who basically shows up to throw bad guys around.

 

The central plot is about Barry Allen going back in time to save his mother from being murdered.  Back in time he goes and he meets his younger self so you get a lot of supposedly humorous scenes with the two Barry's interacting.  This whole mess of a movie ends with all the timelines crashing together and in what is the ultimate superhero film nerd scene all the various actors who played Superman show up in pointless blink or you'll miss them cameos.

 

For all the action scenes and the razzle dazzle special effects The Flash will probably be forgotten in a short time.  This is yet another disappointment from Warner Brothers Studios.  They have struggeled  to find the right formula for the most part to make these DC Superhero movies.  

The film was written by Christina Hodson who has had her hand in to many of these superhero films.

1938 - THE GREAT WALTZ, you have to see it to believe it.

MGM who made their money with middle brow musicals, dramas, and comedies would occasionally decide that what the movie going public wanted was high brow classical entertainment.  The Great Waltz certainly fits this description.  It's an indescribable musical drama about the life of Johann Strauss II a composer known as "The Waltz King."  One quick look at his Wikipedia page shows that not one scene in this film dramatizes the life of Strauss.  In MGM's favor they do announce with a title card at the beginning of the film that this will not be based on the life of Strauss.

MGM spared no expense making this film, the sets are elaborate, the writers are some of the best, the cinematography is at a high caliber.  Oscar Hammerstein of Rogers and Hammerstein fame was hired to add lyrics to the Strauss compositions like they needed lyrics.  Film composer Dimitri Tiomkin rearranged the Strauss waltzes like that needed to be done as well.  The director was Julien Duvivier one of the masters of French cinema.  Duvivier was a man of intelligence and taste so it's rather amazing to see him involved in something like.  The production was so big that Victor Fleming and Josef von Sternberg filmed scenes for the movie although they are uncredited.

 

In order to give the film some class MGM hired a couple of European actors Fernand Gravet and most importantly Miliza Korjus a soprano from Poland.  Since no one could pronounce Korjus name the MGM publicity department hilariously trumped in their advertising that Korjus rhymed with "gorgeous."  Korjus sings and sings and sings thrilling her way through one Strauss composition after another, it's exhausting.

 

For all the silliness of this film and it is a very silly love triangle story,  there is a certain amount of style in many of the scenes.  One suspects Duvivier did what he could to at least film a few good scenes in this hodge podge of Viennese waltz madness.

The film was written by a could of decent writers,  Samuel Hoffenstein and Walter Reisch but there was only so much they could do with this gooey mess of drama and high brow music.  Unsurprisingly the film did not make money. The running time is 104 minutes.

2002 - SUNSHINE STATE, pretty good multi character drama from John Sayles

Another interesting multi character, multi story film from writer/director/editor John Sayles and his producing partner Maggie Renzi.  I don't think this is one of his best films but it's very good.

In a small town in Florida, developers are attempting to purchase and develop the beach front for a resort complex.  Some of the locals are tryiing to stop the developers others welcome the money they will bring into the town.  This very brief summary doesn't really describe how Sayles takes a lot of characters and subplots and weaves them all together.

The film is focused on two characters, Angela Basset as a woman attempting to resolve some issues with her judgemental mother or a mother she sees as judgemental and Edie Falco as a woman who as lived all her life in this town is frankly fed up with her life, both these actors are excellent.  Add to this lots of characters and subplots around a town celebration and a romantic relationship that starts to develop between Falco and Timothy Hutton as one of the land developers.

 

A lot of reviewers have pointed out that Sunshine State bears a strong resembelence to some of Robert Altman's multi character films and I suppose that's true.  But unlike Altman, Sayles actually likes or at the very least is sympathetic with all of his characters.

 

My minor criticisms of the film are that it is somewhat of a challenge to sit through the first rather slow moving 20 minutes of the film and the rather abrupt ending.  However this is still a very good film with an impressive cast of actors.

Running time is 141 minutes.

1976 - KILLER FORCE aka THE DIAMOND MERCENARIES

Filmed mostly on location in South Africa, Killer Force is about a team of thieves who decide to rob a diamond mining complex of twenty million dollars in uncut diamonds.  The director is Val Guest who apparently rewrote the script as the film went into production.  Not the best way to make a movie.  Guest also called this film one of the most difficult assignments of his career.

The film has an unusual cast, Telly Savalas in what can only be described as a "paycheck performance" is the head of security.  Savalas dresses in some cool 1970's clothes and wears a pair of sunglasses throughout the film as he walks through his part.  Peter Fonda is one of the diamond mine's security team. Fonda is sporting a really bushy beard and sort of plays his part as a half hippie, half action hero.  Maud Adams the model turned actress is the unlikely girlfriend of the hairy Fonda.  Christopher Lee is part of the team of thieves, yet another bad guy performance from him.  Hugh O'Brian and O.J. Simpson apparently represent the American contingent in more oddball casting.

 

This is not a great film for the most part.  I suppose there is some entertainment value seeing this weirdo cast but the film seems rather sloppy in the acting and story telling departments.  The last 30-40 minutes is a big action climax with a shootout and a car chase in the desert to keep a viewer awake.  If you like to watch things blow up or lots of guys getting shot this will do.

 

Screenplay by Val Guest,  Gerald Sanford and Michael Winder, the running time is 102 minutes