Word: bumbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is one important feature that distinguishes this production from most other comedies. It has A. E. Matthews. This man is a magnificent bumbler. His bumbling is troublesome in the first act, stimulating in the second, and ingratiating in the third. The eighty-year old actor, portraying a somewhat senile carl who is concerned mainly with shooting marauding rabbits, quietly dominates the action. His bumbling is perfected, the slope of his back is eloquent, and his sage unconcern with mundane matters cannot become tiresome. Aside from his unfortunate tendency to esh his esses, Matthews distributes his lines with the precision...