Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great revolt never came off. Erratic Lieut. Colonel Tomas Duco turned it into a comic-opera failure. Prematurely, he led his Third Infantry into the streets of Buenos Aires. They commandeered cars, trucks and a train. Occupying the suburb of Lomas de Zamora, they set up machineguns and artillery...
...responsible for this sort of eat-your-cheesecake-and-kid-it-too is Gagster Don Hartman, who put some of the trickiest comic curves into the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar and Morocco. The whole picture is easy, handsome, unabashed. It was a fantastic idea to festoon a completely unreal version of World War II around Comedian Danny Kaye. The result: one of the few pictures which seem to have been made for a huge audience of soldiers overseas, avid for such funny fare. (By month's end they will be seeing...
...Hollywood has tried to doctor it with Merle Oberon's legs and has left the religion leit-motive out of the picture by substituting something that is not religion as much as prudishness. The crusader of the book becomes the comic of the picture, and his effect on his land-lady is ridiculous, and not the terrible and gradual thing it was in the book...
...slapdash London revue called Strike a New Note recently passed its sooth performance thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...
...soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty. Sad Sack, lugubrious comic-strip creation of onetime Disney Animator Sergeant George Baker, leads a life of misadventure in the Army's newspaper Yank. Soldier readers think Sad Sack is comical because he is so forlorn...