Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about half the film this comic technique works beautifully. As Mr. Potts blithely bungles into international intrigue completely oblivious of what he is doing, he becomes progressively more pitiful and more comical. George Cole, whose doleful, expressive face is perfect for the part, makes Potts almost Chaplinesque. The beginning is also enlivened by some very funny caricatures of British bureaucrats and civil servants as they frantically try to retrieve the plans for "Project Cataclysm...
...toads may appear, cows may jump over the moon, and Texans may decide that the Lone Star State is not the biggest and bestest after all-report any of these things in your excellent publication and I'll not hesitate to believe. But when you guys term the comic strip Dick Tracy a form of "art" [Sept. 21], then you've gone too far. Your statement is not only the most; it's too much...
...with solo flights-half of them spills to boot-Borge is almost able to demonstrate that, in terms of entertainers, two's a crowd and even a stooge is a superfluity. Long a success in nightclubs and TV, he fits perfectly into the theater. No more a routine comic than a straight pianist, he has the superb showmanship that can hold audiences by doing anything-or nothing...
...more than a year, Britain has carried on a sort of comic-opera blockade around the oasis of Buraimi. a cluster of 8,000 Arabs in mud-walled villages not far from the Persian Gulf. Last week the blockade abruptly lost its comic flavor. There was shooting in the desert and blood on the sand...
...vehicle for his heroine's naivete. William Holden is easy going and competent while David Niven wisely plays with restraint a part that is rather overwritten. And though there are some stage waits toward the end and the direction falters slightly, Miss McNamara's winsomeness and Mr. Herbert's comic talent conspire to produce delightfully witty entertainment...