Word: disesteem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Displayed to Broadway audiences as a comedy of character (TIME, Dec. 19, 1960), Flowers seemed artificial and soon wilted under critical disesteem. Rearranged for moviegoers as a formula farce, the show still seems artificial but the artifice somehow seems right-in a puppet show, who needs reality? Director Norman Jewison deserves three small cheers for the skillful manipulation of his principal puppets. Actor Randall, who as always looks like an unsolicited testimonial for psychoanalysis, achieves a socko series of belt-stretching belly laughs. Actor Hudson, who is sensitively cast as the half-dead hero, has seldom performed so inoffensively...