Four Tales of Infidelity at Continental

By W. WARD MARSH "High Infidelity" Continental-Art

"HIGH INFIDELITY," four comedies

with English titles and different casts as SCANDAL**—Nino Manfredi.

follows: ***THE Fulvia Franco and John Pellp Law, directed by Franco Rossi.

"SIX IN THE AFTERNOON”—Charles Aznavour and claire Bloom, directed by Elio Petri.

**THE VICTIM—Monies Vitti. Jean-

Pierre Cassel and Serato Fantoni. Di-

rected by Mario Monicelli.

MODERN PEOPLE-'co Toenail

Michele Mercier, Bernard Blier. Directed by Luciano Sake

Screen plays by Age and Scarpeli!. Scola and Maccari. Produced by Gianni Hecht Lucari for Documento Film Released by Magna Pictures Distribution Corporation.

Pierre Cassell, exceilent bler. During an otherwise scorned, then pitied and then French comic, comes to her quiet game of baccarat he embraced, providing the lovehouse seeking her husband, loses his cheese factory and ly Michele Mercier is willing. he is invited in for the sobjhome to fat, aging Bernard But how to put the deal to story which does magic with!Blier. her? his undershirt, too.

Blier makes the luckless To be sure it is done, but husband the offer of tearing this is not the first time a fat THE REALLY touching one.jup the IUO's for a night with old boy. hoping to regain his The Scandal," is psychologihis wife. The offer is first youth, has been duped, is it? cal, a delicate and comic!, presentation of homosexual-

ity.

A COUPLE ARE finishing their final vacation days on the beach. During the whole a handsome, rugged young man has been doing his

Like "Trio" and "Quartime

tette." the Continental's new “High Infidelity." relates a number of tales, four in this physical exercises, instance.

even

standing on his head, always

There comparisons end. continually near them. The husband feels sure this

"High Infidelity" is composed Samson is making a play for of four sexy Italian tales ranging from the absurd to tragic moment comes on the his handsome wife. The really the truly poignant. All are delightfully told, entirely mature one-act plays.

As always where there are

final evening of the vacation. and young Samson is put in a genuinely tragic truthful

several playlets in a film, the light.

quality varies: this time from! “MODERN PEOPLE" hasį

good to excellent!

the dramatically mighty Ugo Tognazzi as a devoted hus-

"SIN IN THE Afternoon" band, but a compulsive gam stars two well-known players! -Claire Bloom and Charles Aznavour, who has been making recent TV appearances here. An emotional sex-block falls on Miss Bloom in the film almost as it did on Mastroianni in "Casanova 70."

She must be pursued and conquered by a stranger.

“Sin" is in the convulsively| absurd category and the direction and playing result in delicate chamber music.

ANOTHER even more absurd episode is "The Victim." Monica Vitti could, I feel sure, change the course of most men's lives.

She is a jealous beuty married to Sergio Fantoni. He might well be portraying a 1 very faithful husband until she is sure her charges against his high infidelity are well grounded because his undershirt is wrong-side out. She decides that she must get even and when Jean-