Movies

September, 1976

Some peripheral horseplay by James Caan and Elliott Gould, as a pair of vaudeville song-and-dance men back in the Gay Nineties, almost conquers the weaknesses of Harry and Walter Go to New York, a fairly flabby period comedy that looks like The Sting without the style. The actors try hard. While Caan and Gould camp it up, Michael Caine and Diane Keaton provide a counterpoint of cool drollery--Caine as a millionaire safe-cracker whose example convinces the hoofers, after they meet him in prison,...