International: Oui, Out

From Carson City to Kabul, the audience sighed pleasurably and started feeling for its shoes. The chase was over. In sunny France last week, the son of the Prophet finally did right by little Rita.

As usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The...