Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always the master of situation, Webb dashes about with authority and assurance. His poker-face expression and impromptu remark routine is just as ridiculous and sometimes just as hilarious as in his former productions. Unfortunately, the plot in this case tries to cover all the old comic situations and succeeds in laboring the obvious conflicts in modern living. From modern furniture which ends up supporting the victim on his head to neurotic relations between father and daughter to weepy family scenes, the action speeds about, leaving no emotion unexploited...
Nancy Walker, the female comic lead, is probably the loudest and most un ingratiating actress on the stage today; Gene Lockhart, her co-star, is an established actor in his own right, but he has no singing voice, and this is, unfortunately, a prerequisite in a musical. There is, of course, a romantic sub-plot running through the play, but since neither of its principals can either sing or dance, it seems hardly worth mentioning...
Before the trip's survivors finally become mail-order brides in a scene of titillating comic hokum, they endure an exhaustive series of acts of God, man and MGM: storms, accidents, Indian attacks, childbirth, rape, dissension, the rigors of the Rockies and the heat of Death Valley. The passengers themselves are just as varied e.g., a French girl (Denise Dareel), who puts a respectable front on a disreputable past; a salty New Englander (Hope Emerson), who spouts seafaring lingo; a frail, pregnant schoolteacher (Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine...
Miracle in Milan. A comic masterpiece of fantasy by Italy's Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica (TIME...
...small band of Pogophiles prefer to say that Pogo was reborn in 1948. From 1943 until 1946, he appeared bimonthly in a comic-book format that was almost totally ignored by the intelligentsia...