Word: amateurish
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...McThing has the great fault of bohemia-the mussed look, the makeshift furnishings, the "interesting" but rather amateurish dinner that arrives several hours late. For, barring some salted nuts, it is not till Mrs. McThing is more than half over that any food for laughter begins to appear...
Most of the entertainment, however, is at the director's expense. The swordplay is delightfully amateurish, and Miss O'Hara's lovemaking is delightfully deadpan. Most delightful of all, however, are the missed cues. At one point, Athos' daughter descends a staircase, stops and waits expectantly for the swordsmen who were supposed to surprise...
...real star of Mr. Texas is Billy Graham. The most effective sequences are those of his mile-a-minute preaching, filmed last February and March at Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. As a movie, Mr. Texas is amateurish. But it cost only $35,000. Evangelist Graham concedes: "It's no DeMille, but then DeMille takes $35,000 to warm up his lights...
After adjusting to the pleasant shock of being ushered to a seat practically in the stage set living room of Mrs. Wislack, played by Louise Licklider, the acting of our hostess is a disappointment. Amateurish and typed seems a fair description also of the efforts of William Siebert as a Duke. The best acting in the play was done by Edward Sostek who did a fine portrayal of a henpecked hunted man. Norman Ashton's direction is also effective...
...diplomacy [is] an amateurish mixture of provocation, pressure, persuasion and money. The entire continent has been flooded with anti-Argentine pamphlets which can be traced to the U.S. Now a North American organization has been set up in Montevideo to intervene in this country's political affairs by using newspapers and radio to influence our coming elections. From all this we can see how Western policy and diplomacy are conducted...