Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 20

EVENINO STANDARD THURSDAY NOVEMBER 36 1964 THE NEW FILMS FILM: The Troublemaker (Cert A)' Continentale DIRECTOR: Theodore Flicker street and finds he's entombed an old lady ho was snoozing on her front step He gets into the grasp of protection racketeers and corrupt citv officials You mean every body gets a pay-off he queries Comes the reply that's what makes it so fair" id -Wester innocent (Tom Aldredge) gets advice from city slicker lawyer (Buck Henry) shut up and pay ap Breathless blob in the and yum- yum Jam it is A Negro blarneys away with HS'S one of those bright-eyed innocents up from the Mid-West chicken-farming belt to open a coffee shop in Greenwich Village "A coffee cries a dope peddler picked up by the New York narcotics squad and moves away in distaste It is an omen Everything goes wrong for the poor sap He lays his hand on an arty oit of sculpture and the mitt gets trapped and squeaks in pain He stops to builders lay bricks in the Yes 9 back by a man making a call on a maybe why the gags come breathlessly one after the other A window blind with a picture of a peeping neighbour painted on it gets whipped up to reveal peeping neighbour A sledge named Rosebud last seen in Citizen Kane turns up on a rubbish heap An abstract painting has a kind of Jammy what makes it so funny Everybody high and low white and black good and wicked comes in for a knock from this free-swinging bit of satire by the group of New York film-makers who also did the stage show The Premise Thy are wacky stylish and merciless all at once The film is narrated in flash gets a an Irish brogue An Irish cop walks and talks like a horror-movie zombie and can only be halted bv a wad of money waved mesmerically before his eyes Even the gag lines are cool and flip to my analyst be a perfectly adjusted girl if only I'd lived in the says the kooky friend of the hero And one old college buddy meeting another bawls out to his stenographer as they go into a rah-rah-rah campus cheer Smith take a The plot conceived by Buck Henry and director Theodore inf makes it so 1 1 generates the surreal savagery of a Nathanael West story as the hero is me cod lo buy lo pay! scooped up into a mechanical rubbish truck manned by the crooks and spewed out on a garbage tip oi finds himself tip-toeing along a ledge 20 floors up to escape from an asylum with a lunatic as guide Now this is the most difficult says the nut preparing to jump The Troublemaker is a real turn-up among the comedies crime was one of the most repetitive kind and even when the victims include Michele Morgan and Danielle Darrieux and the killer is a perfect little crocodile of charm played by Charles Denner you do find yourself saying Oh not again 1 when he starts stoking the stove HOTEL DU NOED (Academy Cinema Gab) Is prMir breath of lyrical pessimism with Arletty Louis Jouvet Jean-Pierre Aumont and Annabella is the lovers in Marcel Carnet canal-side hotel The print mint new and completely re-subtitled Breathe In the nostalgia for star performances put it back underneath its glass case Overcoats are from £14176 to £39 Sajr you choose one -at 19 Plus a cravat 81 Set it off with pigskin gloves 696 and a slim umbrella A suit too Total: £45-8-5 Willcrby wise down and 24 monthly payments of £2 including a small charge for credit Clothes as you want them 1 when you want the wisdom of Willcrbv I Icr coat came from IVillcrbys too! A really good the Had that wind and snow go round and never through People used to save for one before they got Willcrby wise Now they just pay a small deposit and get their coat with a cravat gloves and umbrella to set it ofFMaybc a suit as well because Willcrbys give you 24 months to pay linger to pay means less each month WiUcrby wisdom It extends from your suit to your shoes along a regular parade of top brand names Nowhere else can you get such credit fur clothes sense Fantastic FILM: 36 Hours (Cert A) Empire STARS: James Garner Era Marie Saint Rad Taylor FAST RELIEF FROM COLD SYMPTOMS Triple-action Febs work three ways to relieve cold and catarrh quickly Febs clear nasal congestion Help you breathe easily again Febs reduce feverishness Soothe aches and pains Febs fight off that 'run down' feeling Take Febs whenever IT is the week before D-day and the German High Command suspects it But how can they make certain of it How can they find out when and where the Allies will land the problem this film solves with a really ingenious idea The Germans kidnap an American courier (James Gamer who io in the know and persuade him that the war has ended with Germany's defeat and the year is now 1950 not 194 ft This mvrt7e? flying him In a drugged state to aa isolated mansion disguised as an American Army of Occupation hospital They dye his hair grey They put drops in his eyes so that when he wakes up he finds he needs to use reading spectacles What he reads is a special edition of Stars and Stripes dated 1950 and illustrating ex-President Roosevelt on holiday They also provide a blonde wife (Eva Marie Saint) ard a sympathetic doctor (Rod Taylor) who tells him he has lost his memory for six years and offers to help him fill in the blanks let's go back to June 1944 and tell us what you remember What he remembers and how the enemy reacts make a fantastic plot almost totally believable It is a pity George Seaton's direction is not as sharp as the idea deserves and the Germans fall into stock Nazi types Still the suspense is strong end there Is a nice irony when the Germans filling In their prisoner about how the war ended just happen to Invent a bomb plot against Hitler a cold threatens Febs also bring quick relief to sinus congestion hay fever and catarrh Make sure you always keep a packet handy II tablets 26 ONLY FROM Incinerated RLULBEAUD (Cert A) Jury in the Strand Is Landru the French multiple killer who seduced wealthy young ladies and widows during World War One when more respectable men were engaged In ritual kill ing at the you take the and then incinerated WILLERBY TAILORING BRANCHES EVERYWHERE 28-30 OXFORD STREET W1 LATE NICirr CLOSING 7 PM FRIDAY (OXFORD ST AND TOTTENHAM COURT RD 7 PM THURSDAY) JOR YOUR NEAREST BRANCH SEE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY OR KING RUISLIF 3333 them In the kitchen stove As each lady comes up for burning in this elegantly heartless painstakingly period film scripted by Francoise Sagan and directed by Claude Chabrol the camera freezes her face in a "look your last on all things lovely moment A perfect touch of pity but.