June 10, 1975
United Artists
Comedy, Historical
VHS
C+
I remembered this film as funnier than I found it this time. Some of the jokes fall flat, but oddly enough it's not bad as a pastiche of 19th-century Russian novels (with a few dashes of Ingmar Bergman). I thought the best performance was given by Harold Gould, then 51, who was probably best known at the time for playing Rhoda Morgenstern's father on TV. As in Sleeper, Woody and Diane plot an assassination, this time Napoleon's.
Norman Rose, who's the voice of Death, did an unidentified voice in Pinocchio in Outer Space and would be a radio voice in Radio Days. (No, no one personifites Love.)
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