7 faces of Dr. Lao.....A 'Cool' Film

LAST NIGHT WAS HUGE FUN FOR ME.  I watched the bizarre, sleek, Tony Randall film from the exuberant year of 1964 called '7 Faces of Dr. Lao.'  This movie amused me because it hit the viewer on numerous levels...in some ways it was a rich mystery, in others it was a remarkable adventure tale and in many depth-inflected ways it was a fantasy laden with highly well-constructed philosophical overtones.  The crafty Tony Randall comes to the small Arizona town with his his tiny show with many odd, unique characters. The man they know as Dr. Lao succeeds in changing all the people of the community. In truth, quite quickly Dr. Lao instructs the people of the town in the acerbic thoughtful missive about just how precious what we call life is.  This  is a delight of a movie.  The director, George Pal, did an expressive and so superb piece of work crafting this movie.