Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making all three act and react in agreeably unbourgeois fashion, Playwright Green whips the situation into a nice comic froth. Then an Internal Revenue man arrives, finds that secret joint authorship leads to curious joint tax returns, and stirs up some fiscal commotion. After that, though in a rather graceful way, Janus goes downhill...
Paying less attention to historical fact than comic situation, writer-director Marcel Arnaud fills his screenplay with amusing scenes. In one of the funniest, Hortense bewilders her stage lover by singing the lines of her part to a boxful of royal admirers. As Hortense, Yvonne Printemps doesn't sing very well, which is unfortunate as she sings a lot. But she is properly capricious, and her dresses are by Dior. Though Pierre Dux makes a fine Russian general, the rest of the cast is just adequately funny. Only Fresnay makes a great deal of his part, but the movie needs...
Next day, the first day of school, Dean is greeted by his classmates as "a new disease," and during a field trip to the planetarium, a leather-jacketed roughneck slashes a tire on his car. "You read too many comic books." says Dean. They fight with knives. Dean wins. The boy challenges him to a "chickie run" -a dash to the edge of a cliff in two stolen cars; first man to jump out before the cars go over the brink is "chicken." Caught between folly and disgrace. Dean asks his father what to do. Father funks out. Dean makes...
...Camera. Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME...
...author has, in fact, produced a wonderfully funny comedy by combining two very different comic techniques. He has gone back several centuries for gimmicks like people hidden in closets, boys dressed as girls, chairs pulled out from under their prospective occupants, burlesque dialect and gestures, and even bad jokes. But Wilder has not forgotten the innovating spirit of his Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth days, either. Every main character in The Matchmaker has at least one outright soliloquy in which he steps up to the footlights and blatantly tells the audience his thoughts and motivations...