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Article: VINTAGE STOCK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 1987
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Today through Wednesday, Brookline's Coolidge Corner
Moviehouse is genuflecting to the late Danny Kaye with a double
bill featuring the antic comedian: "The Inspector General" (1949)
and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947). There's more Kaye
than Gogol in the first, and more Kaye than Thurber in the second,
yet each has its share of highs. As a vagrant buffoon mistaken for
the all-powerful inspector general in a corrupt village in Czarist
Russia, Kaye plays amusingly off Walter Slezak, as the villager
with the most to hide. As the milquetoastish Walter Mitty, he
daydreams his way through fantasies in which he's a captain riding
out a storm and a heroic airman. But most memorable ...
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