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| Mr Lester... has pulled off a remarkably difficult job, combining slapstick, swashbuckling, and social satire while doing injury to none of the moods. |
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| (Peter Bogdanovich, New York) |
| Certainly there are one or two duels too may, but the sightgags and funny business are so swiftly paced and the action so mercurial that the eye is bombarded by a continuous succession of spectacular images. Altogether, a wholly engaging escapade memorable for its sheer abundance and vitality. |
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| (Virginia Dignam, Morning Star) |
| Miraculously enough one of the best things [Lester] has done... Marks his complete return to comic form and also hints that Lester has other, hitherto undisclosed virtues: an accurate and irreverent sense of period, an instinct for narrative, an ability to pace his films. |
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| (Nigel Andrews, Financial Times) |
| Mr Lester doesn't merely like the cinema... He likes the extravagant past of the cinema. He has a feeling for the bravado of its action and the gusto with which its often very simple jokes are put over. |
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| (Dilys Powell, Sunday Times) |
| It is good for once to see a real family film dedicated to nothing more pretentious than making us forget all the miseries of the world for an hour or two. |
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| (Cecil Wilson, Daily Mail) |
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