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hyped garbage

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

George Roy Hill directs "The World of Henry Orient", a once original now thoroughly tame film starring Peter Sellers as Henry Orient. Orient's a self-centred concert pianist who dates a series of married women. Unfortunately he's caught in the act by a pair of preteen boarding-school friends, played by Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, both of whom worship Orient from afar. The girls' overworked imaginations result in them pursuing Orient and recording their fantasies in their diaries, a fact which irks one of their mothers, played by Angela Lansbury.Sellers' role isn't particularly well written, but Walker and Spaeth do good work. Much of the film consists of the duo engaging in flights of fancy or pulling pranks on unsuspecting adults. In this way, Hill finds an unusual tone; a playful perspective befitting zany adolescence. Think of "Orient" as a teen version of Hill's more popular "Sting" and "Butch Cassidy".6/10 - Worth one viewing.

This movie hasn't got that good of a rating. So I don't think it was really that good even when it was released. But with time it has really dated making it unwatchable. I couldn't even understand what we were supposed to like about the movie or where we were supposed to laugh.It is about two fourteen year old girls who are friends. One of them develops a crush on an mature guy, and they start following him. They meet him once. Then they meet him again. Then they meet him again. I know it is kind of repetitive, but so was the movie.Maybe it will be somewhat liked by the people of that time, but things have changed too much now. Give this one a miss.

I have good memories of this film! I mean, there was a young, rich, hip,cosmopolitan protagonist with her equally cosmopolitan, badly behaving mother played by Angela Lansbury, running around New York City ... and ... Peter Sellers!! What more could you want? Plus, it has some hard lessons in it ...I think all tweeners should see it!I especially like the scene when they show up outside Henry Orient's window in bamboo hats and bow to him when he looks out the window ... charming!I wonder whatever happened to that actress Tippy Walker-?

The World of Henry Orient is lots of fun to watch. Both Paula Prentiss and Peter Sellers are very funny. Peter Sellers uses a great New York accent when he is being his real self, and Paula Prentiss' jittery reaction to his tries to seduce her are hilarious. Angela Lansbury is the ultimate bad mother and is somewhat like her character in The Manchurian Candidate. The two young girls who play the main characters are wonderful, and if they had a career after this movie it wasn't a memorable one. Their characters are portrayed a little too youthful for fourteen yearolds, even for the early sixties, but both of the characters are interesting and lots of fun to watch as they run around the New York City of the early 1960's. This is a great movie to watch when you want to forget the real world and step back into an America of a bygone era.