brefane Intermittenly charming and funny courtesy of the 2 young actresses who perform with commendable believability and whose friendship supplies the film's most captivating and original moments. Unfortunately, the adults are less interesting and the girls' infatuation with Sellers is not persuasive. Sellers who starred in Lolita, The Pink Panther and Dr. Strangelove has nothing to do, but is forced by the script to do it over and over while Paula Prentiss and Angela Lansbury have their moments, but Tom Bosely, Phyllis Thaxter and Bibi Osterwald bring the film down. Location shooting on NYC streets help, but the film feels overly long. Directed by George Roy Hill whose 1972 film Slaughterhouse-5 is a neglected gem.

princebansal1982 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.

DKosty123 From the director of Butch Cassidy & The Sting, Director Hill does a good job with the photography here. While this is a good solid film, the script could have been better. Still this is a worth while film to view.Peter Sellers is Henry Orient, a classic pianist who appears to be messing up his work because he is being distracted by Paula Prentiss. The towering Paula is a great distraction & his lack of practice at the keys begins upsetting audiences. I would have loved being distracted by Prentiss.The main story is of two young girls who are musically inclined, develop a crush on Henry & follow him all over town. This stalking is presented as perfectly harmless though more than once they catch Henry & Paula in the position. There is a strong supporting cast here including Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, Al Lewis and others who add to the quality of the film. When the film concentrates on the main story, which is a coming of age story of two young girls & how their problems are handled by the parents who are split themselves, the story is very good. There is plenty of humor too. Once in a while, the film gets side tracked by a couple of minor plots. That is where the film weakens a bit. Still, seeing this cast & laughing at & with Peter Sellers is a very entertaining way to watch a movie.

Ritag2 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.