Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performances, and get author Kanin's ideas across well. Crawford's Harry Brock is not quite up to what Paul Douglas achieved on the stage, however. Crawford plays the junkman as a surly oaf and a menace--both of which he is, of course. But the part is a comic one as well, and Mr. Crawford hasn't done much to earn laughs. After all, "Born Yesterday" is a comedy...
...Green Pastures" has come out of retirement, after almost 19 years, and this production makes one wonder why New Yorkers let it leave Broadway in the first place. It is comic, dramatic, compassionate, and sometimes tragic. And it is something more. Perhaps that is why playwright Marc Connelly calls it a "fable," rather than a play...
...Some of the individual performances are little less than perfect. William Marshall, as De Lawd, has immense awe-inspiring dignity. And when Ossie Davis, as Gabriel, cries out "Gangway! Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah! you almost expect Him to step out of the wings. Noah becomes a wonderful comic creation in the hands of Alonzo Bosan. The list of fine performances in "The Green Pastures" is a long...
...rich minority and poor, starving millions. When, as often, the Red editors are not able to find enough twistable news, they print as current events ancient stories and pictures about the rollicking 1890s and the depression-ridden 1930s. Old Charlie Chaplin movies are reported, not as achievements in comic art, but as true stories about U.S. treatment of tramps. From some cute remarks to a paper's inquiring photographer, the humorless Reds built their definition of the typical U.S. male's ideal pleasure: beating Mae West...
Unfortunately, the film's continuity is almost as ragged as its moppets, and just as inclined to make too much of a good thing. But Director Robert Varnay knows how to cut loose a camera for comic effect, and the kids (Jacques Gencel,* Sophie Leclair, De Meulan, et al.) appear human and likable, never consciously cute, and seldom more precocious than a childhood on Montmartre streets might warrant...