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Robert Nelson, 36, a 6-ft. 3-in. San Franciscan, is a black-and-blue humorist who made one of the comic classics of the experimental cinema. Oh, Dem Watermelons is a daffy documentary about all the horrible things that can happen to watermelons. They get kicked like footballs, gutted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Art of Light & Lunacy: The New Underground Films | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

But the debate and the events preceding it are shot through with gags, word play and pure slapstick. The funniest sequences are those employing the choruses, one made up of Frogs and the other of a band of religious initiates. Here Munger is most skillful, as he breaks up great...

Author: By Lee H. Simowttz, | Title: The Frogs | 4/23/1966 | See Source »

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. The exploits of pioneer airmen and their flaphappy craft warm up a daffy, 1910 London-Paris air race and slapstick nostalgia is provided by Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi and Terry-Thomas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Jul. 30, 1965 | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. The exploits of pioneer airmen and their flaphappy craft warm up a daffy London-Paris air race of 1910, and slapstick nostalgia is provided by Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi and Terry-Thomas.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 23, 1965 | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Murder Most Foul. "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up . . ." begins Margaret Rutherford, auditioning for a provincial repertory company with a daffy, definitive recitation of Robert Service's Yukon ballad, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She has no sooner finished than an actor drops dead at her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Gun, Low Aim | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

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