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Written by James M. Tate / 6/20/2025 / No comments / british , capucine , comedy , paula prentiss , peter o'toole , peter sellers , romy schneider , ursula andress , woody allen

PETER SELLERS OVERTAKES WOODY ALLEN'S 'WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mkAukfq4Rq1gCLeRAVcbSjzYcO3vO3iyYcT27aNkEuMDit__YiGCjHVoaA1T6WY-Eb35hWsOa0q_7ufO3KoyePdXFMtFHOc1MRXPQjuIVmVTFOI57mjOPCow5Ua65OOOHdDMvNYLFORqJ09NS6-kNhkMFgrgF8RZWPPso7P0HEGiFbhaTSA7_pOe5sox/s1428/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-24%20at%2011.25.41%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7mkAukfq4Rq1gCLeRAVcbSjzYcO3vO3iyYcT27aNkEuMDit__YiGCjHVoaA1T6WY-Eb35hWsOa0q_7ufO3KoyePdXFMtFHOc1MRXPQjuIVmVTFOI57mjOPCow5Ua65OOOHdDMvNYLFORqJ09NS6-kNhkMFgrgF8RZWPPso7P0HEGiFbhaTSA7_pOe5sox/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-24%20at%2011.25.41%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? Year: 1965 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>Young standup-comedian Woody Allen got his cinematic kickstart writing the screenplay for what turned out to be a smash hit, especially in England where WHAT'S UP PUSSYCAT? was made and takes place, foreshadowing the womanizer sub-genre of ALFIE while setting up the kind of neurotic-guy jokes that Allen would become famous for... Sadly, he has the smallest role here, as the geeky strike-out-king friend of central star Peter O'Toole... the latter who visually fits the role of a handsome fashion magazine editor that every woman in London's Swinging 60's falls for, but being an intense dramatic actor who ignited his fame in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, he's even more miscast for the fumbling-comedy template than the otherwise brilliant comedic actor who basically ruins the movie...

british, capucine, comedy, paula prentiss, peter o'toole, peter sellers, romy schneider, ursula andress, woody allen

PETER SELLERS OVERTAKES WOODY ALLEN'S 'WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?'

Title: WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? Year: 1965 Rating: ** Young standup-comedian Woody Allen got his cinematic kickstart writing the screenplay ...

ORSON WELLES PUTS ANTHONY PERKINS THROUGH 'THE TRIAL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinodC0LaLgSivYr0Y9ca32QzFuHb5eOpaMabEZUIYk_mPya_MjYKRhuS1VUjX5kjsUBWxMDsCzICiq90llv7zCN-4csoQ5uzpMdgeLKUVZDcgRWh8OhuZUtLVi7sfPDJV_QeUUL-zf2OaUgZEfZdeIq06_qsoaLyB9Zdc4idiqtHWaEurbXqfjLAl-QNZG/s1134/380840362_1806949616400873_9172979606554586118_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinodC0LaLgSivYr0Y9ca32QzFuHb5eOpaMabEZUIYk_mPya_MjYKRhuS1VUjX5kjsUBWxMDsCzICiq90llv7zCN-4csoQ5uzpMdgeLKUVZDcgRWh8OhuZUtLVi7sfPDJV_QeUUL-zf2OaUgZEfZdeIq06_qsoaLyB9Zdc4idiqtHWaEurbXqfjLAl-QNZG/s16000/380840362_1806949616400873_9172979606554586118_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anthony Perkins in Orson Welles's THE TRIAL Year: 1962 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Before his final William Shakespeare adaptation CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT aka FALSTAFF, the legendary actor/director <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/orson%20welles">Orson Welles</a> said that, if he had to chose only one movie to offer for entrance into Heaven, it would be THE TRIAL — ironic since it's basically a journey into Hell...Actually, Anthony Perkins as Joseph K (for author Kafka) wakes up there already, stuck within a frustrating perdition, in his very own apartment that, next door to local floozy Jeanne Moreau, makes him a suspect by plainclothes-detectives, who begin a somewhat subtle interrogation that progresses throughout, involving several other authority figure types...

adaptation, akim tamiroff, anthony perkins, franz kafka, import, jeanne moreau, jess hahn, mystery, neo noir, orson welles, romy schneider, sixties, thriller

ORSON WELLES PUTS ANTHONY PERKINS THROUGH 'THE TRIAL'

Anthony Perkins in Orson Welles's THE TRIAL Year: 1962 Rating: ***1/2 Before his final William Shakespeare adaptation CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT...

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsIWkuznV8q00gUF9h2ZC5HdX13RUGaKj8XiaTlAjIZHrKobN6C2L5gc9hA38uBxXzhzoMggaqflJrAPhg4Vkqkf2GQ7m0QtcEk0qMTnfBclMkTDlqH4eRAkXtSjNLFvt8fcYPA4ltIoFld8ZfOeP_LUg5LlUIc_JeFWhEOOaUa4jqL20zwdDZSB287nE/s2452/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-16%20at%202.31.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsIWkuznV8q00gUF9h2ZC5HdX13RUGaKj8XiaTlAjIZHrKobN6C2L5gc9hA38uBxXzhzoMggaqflJrAPhg4Vkqkf2GQ7m0QtcEk0qMTnfBclMkTDlqH4eRAkXtSjNLFvt8fcYPA4ltIoFld8ZfOeP_LUg5LlUIc_JeFWhEOOaUa4jqL20zwdDZSB287nE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-16%20at%202.31.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role for Tom Courtenay before returning to and remaining with the Royal Stage until his comeback in THE DRESSER. Despite earning an Oscar nomination, those very long thirteen-years had changed the scrawny, scowling, hungry rebellious youth into a mellow middle-aged man who could still act — but visually it was like replacing James Dean with Jimmy Dean... 
 
OTLEY was also a reunion of two young cronies from Courtenay's star-making LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER with James Bolam as one of several antique dealers along Fleet Street, England, where Courtenay's Gerald Otley hardly makes a living, starting out being kicked out of one flat and desperately seeking another...

action, alan badel, british new wave, fiona lewis, freddie jones, james bolam, james maxwell, james villiers, lenoard rossiter, leonard rossiter, romy schneider, spoof, spy, tom courtenay, wrong man

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: **** At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role f...

HARVEY KEITEL AND ROMY SCHNEIDER IN 'DEATH WATCH'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqjJRNvmXnWgdxdqJO6WsfKU7E0O5mgJYGP2QSbUbHMMONmuh0SSSGvcWJMjvi5p4Oo96k73qrF1YoRmzdDJuysp2B4Bzng0b9Avo8NaHocs4SQConsHIGSbU1XMN16ocLj2dwP9vb69dBjR9xJODzl40txOWS-TkPoKwQr4LIbzIJiZKYKSlBs3JtQ/s1915/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1915" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqjJRNvmXnWgdxdqJO6WsfKU7E0O5mgJYGP2QSbUbHMMONmuh0SSSGvcWJMjvi5p4Oo96k73qrF1YoRmzdDJuysp2B4Bzng0b9Avo8NaHocs4SQConsHIGSbU1XMN16ocLj2dwP9vb69dBjR9xJODzl40txOWS-TkPoKwQr4LIbzIJiZKYKSlBs3JtQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: DEATH WATCH aka LA MORT EN DIRECT aka DER GEKAUFTE TOD Year: 1980 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>An intense firebrand of a crime-genre actor playing against type during the 1970's Renaissance opposite a beautiful dying European woman is reminiscent of BOBBY DEERFIELD, where Al Pacino put the breaks on his otherwise aggressive persona as a subdued race car driver driving around with doomed Martha Keller, and Harvey Keitel opposite Romy Schneider will seem like deja vu, only it's science-fiction along with romantic melodrama...Both elements coexisting in a not so futuristic-looking future where people rarely die of diseases, and a television series called DEATH WATCH does what THE TRUMAN SHOW would later...