Going-through-the-motions filming of the Broadway hit. On past evidence, no one would imagine that director John Huston has any special aptitude for musicals. Or on present evidence either. His first-ever musical, after three dozen movies and more than twice that many years, is big, slow, and ugly. Albert Finney, doing a sometimes uncanny imitation of Huston's own blustery speech delivery, seems to enjoy himself in the role of Daddy Warbucks. But we've seen him enjoy himself in just this way — irascible misanthrope transformed into heel-clicking philanthrope — once before, in Ronald Neame's Scrooge. Here, however, unlike there, he doesn't have the advanced age of his character to excuse the stiffness of his movement. With Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Tim Curry. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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