Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhat reminiscent of Errol Flynn's epics, Mutiny charts its technicolor course through blood, battle, and the whims of a bosomy heroine, played with deadpan perfection by Angela (never a hair out of place) Lansbury...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
Most of the entertainment, however, is at the director's expense. The swordplay is delightfully amateurish, and Miss O'Hara's lovemaking is delightfully deadpan. Most delightful of all, however, are the missed cues. At one point, Athos' daughter descends a staircase, stops and waits expectantly for the swordsmen who were supposed to surprise...
...cast includes such acceptable Latin types as Anthony Quinn and Margo, and such less acceptable Latin types as Jean Peters. In the title role, Marlon Brando, wearing a spitcurl hairdo, drooping mustachios and cartwheel sombrero, slouches and mumbles his way through the excitement in a deadpan Brando voice...
...Dave, who is a first-class skier but not in Andy's class, is also an unvexed admirer of his wife's prowess. Austria's Christian Pravda once tried to needle Dave: "How horrible to have a wife who can ski better!" Said Dave, equally deadpan: "She waits...