Word: comics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marianne Purdy plays the wonderful worldly-wise French head-mistress with charm, coyly leads millionaire Percival Browne (David Pursley) about the stage with a wave of her fan. Mr. Pursley's Percival is British to the hilt, dry and witty and essentially comic, and in some scenes it's a wonder he can keep a straight face...
Neat. The next night, the latest episode of the Steve Canyon series (NBC) demonstrated that even a fictionalized story based on Milton Caniff's comic strip can hardly outrace reality. It is, after all, possible for a carelessly fired deer rifle to damage the window of a parked B-47. The damage could very well spread under the stress of flight. And when a window blows out at 46,000 feet, pilot and copilot alike might just possibly be too stunned to nose down to safety. Granted those coincidences, the rest of Operation Intercept was a neat exercise...
Alias Jesse James (Hope Enterprises; United Artists), for moviegoers who have almost given up Hope, is a pleasant surprise: a Bob Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his career by writing a $100,000 insurance policy for a man who avers that he is "well known in railroad and banking circles." Only later does Hope realize that he has insured the life of the nation's No. 1 public enemy: Jesse James (Wendell Corey...
...Fathers and I, by Eric Linklater. A comic gallery of historical portraits intended to show that the past is laughable, the present beneath contempt...
...column may be for a minority, but it's a substantial minority." Sun-Times Executive Editor Lawrence S. Fanning, who calls Adler "a kind of poor man's Plato," is as enthusiastic as Adler. Says he: "If we can move a few people away from the comic strips and into this kind of material, it seems to me that the paper is performing one of its essential functions, which is education...