Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most promising and engaging personality on the summer replacement circuit is Johnny Carson, 29-year-old comic of CBS's The Johnny Carson Show (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.D.T.). With a droll sense of humor. Carson never raises his voice, but has an effective way of raising an eyebrow, and he combines a slow double-take with a quick smile. Given good material, he could be irresistibly funny...
...planes), and winner of the Silver Star and D.F.C. for his exploits as General Claire Chennault's operations officer and deputy chief of staff in the China-Burma-India theater; in Colorado Springs. West Pointer Vincent was the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates, became (at 29) one of the youngest general officers in Army history...
...rest of the hour-and-a-half show never strayed too far from the routine (with one exception), although it continued to jump from East to West Coast and up to Canada for a scene from Julius Caesar at the Stratford Festival. The exception was Cantinflas, the famed Mexican comic, fighting a small (700-lb.) bull in a Tijuana bullring. Cantinflas came out wearing a crushed, narrow-brimmed fedora and pants that hovered uncertainly halfway down his hips. The bull took one look at him and seemed frankly baffled. The band struck up a rumba, and Cantinflas, stomping his feet...
...bloodhound has a Southern accent; a dachshund talks like a comedy Dutchman; a borzoi spouts about Gorky with Russian flourishes. Whimsy is seldom more than a step ahead of whamsy: Jock and Trusty archly explain about sex to Lady just before Tramp does battle with three slavering mastiffs; a comic scene in the dog pound is closely followed by a parody of the "last mile" walk from the death house as a crazed dog is led off to be destroyed. The film's big terror scene takes place in a baby's bedroom, where valiant Tramp kills...
...this unlikely material emerges a better-than-average VistaVision musical mostly because of the near-maniacal energy of Bob Hope, whose timing was never better as he splutters gags like an endless string of comic firecrackers. Italy's Milly Vitale is decorative as the long-suffering wife, and the children are always on hand to trigger a succession of mildly-daring jokes about childbirth...