Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instructed to take the boy to a match de football. Reason for the outing is that Mama feels her first labor pains coming on, and since the boy still thinks that babies are bought from pushcart peddlers, it is prudent to post him elsewhere. In a scene of superb comic tenderness, Papa attempts to explain where children really come from, and bears up just fine until his relentlessly inquisitive child asks: "But, Papa, where do you plant the seed...
...whole ambience is so unmistakably French. This particular production, however, will offer them little help, largely because Tom Ewell of Owens-boro, Kentucky, is playing the patate. Mr. Ewell, as usual, makes funny faces that are both expressive and unstrained. He handles the role well enough otherwise, but his comic talents do not get much play. Lee Bowman acts Gladstone, and Haila Stoddard (substituting for Nancy Wickwire) and Murial Williams play various wives. All are competent. As the unchaste ingenue, who is never quite as interesting a character as the author seems to expect, Susan Oliver is, if nothing else...
...Colonel is an extremely successful movie version of S. N. Berman's Jacobowsky and the Colonel, which was itself an adaptation of an earlier play by the German writer, Franz Werfel. Despite the fact that it is essentially comic and optimistic, the main interest lies in the character of the anti-semitic Polish officer who is also escaping the German onslaught, and is forced to join Jacobowsky in the flight from Paris. Before the inevitable conclusion in which fellowship overcomes prejudice, the Colonel displays most of the personal traits idealized by the pursuing enemy...
...posse also includes the usual comic dog handler, in a movie that needs no comic relief. Yet the basic structure is still sound, despite one of the least likely romantic interludes on the modern screen...
...Nurse Babs Mintner and her college-boy lover. This minor theme leads to the funniest scene of an often funny novel: the seduction of featherheaded Babs which takes place one rainy night in a drive-in theater and rages through three continuous showings of Wuthering Heights. There are other comic set pieces, notably a TV quiz called What's My Disease?, where panelists triumphantly identify gruesome samples of elephantiasis, icthyosis and multiple goiter...