Cinema: Feb. 17, 1961

Peter Sellers is twice as funny as anyone else currently on view, not entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal £2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another job.

Facts of Life. A quick, slick, slyly satirical comedy of middle-class manners and middle-aged morals,...

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