the first twenty minutes, if not for the rest of it: they don't write satire like this anymore.
George C. Scott deserved the Oscar for his performance---he is a brilliant comedian, as well as dramatic actor.
Diana Rigg sinks the middle with her long, rambling feminist diatribe, but the movie survives and hurtles along soon enough.
Is this Paddy Chayevsky's finest screenplay (he did get the "O.")
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