Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comic fantasy about Russian émigré life in Berlin by the most famous literary magician now at work...
...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A magician of language rummages in his tarnished memories of Russian émigré life in Berlin and comes up with a delightful comic fantasy-and a symbolic assault on Philistinism in Russian culture...
...hour running time. It does not account, however, for turning the first hour or so into a miniaturized Mister Roberts. All the old hands are on board. There is the salty Regular Navy-man who makes things tough for the fresh-water PT-boat jockeys; there are the stock-comic enlisted men with true hearts and rural accents; there is even the inevitable goldbricker who works always at being transferred Stateside. When this character dares to suggest to Mister Kennedy that with his pull in Washington he could get both of them out of the Pacific in no time...
...story of the war in the South Pacific, PT 109 would have made a serviceable little picture for the double-bill circuits. But blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...
Some of the comic baggage is incomprehensibly tasteless. British bathroom humor, some of it-abetted by dentiperforate Terry-Thomas, who skulks about as a spy-is overdone drollery. The rocket that the duchy launches in full ivew of an invited delegation of U.S., British and Russian diplomats has a fringed curtain at a stained-glass window, and carries a hot water bottle, a teapot, a cage of live chickens, a ukulele and a selection of good wines. When Grand Fenwick's spacemen get to the moon just ahead of the Americans and Russians, they plant their flag, turn...