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...Great Big Doorstep (adapted by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett from the novel by E. P. O'Donnell; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a folk comedy about a ramshackle family of Cajuns in lower Louisiana. Its pleasant sliver of plot concerns their fishing a handsome doorstep out of the Mississippi and then trying to get a house to go with...
Headed straight for the U.S. housewife's doorstep and Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes's lap this week is a milk crisis of Grade-A quality...
Herman Shumlin, producer of "The Great Big Doorstep," is slated to join the Army as soon as his new show opens on Broadway. He might as well save wear and tear on the induction center and enlist right now; his show's chances of staying in New York any longer than he will are about as slim as the thread he's based his story...
Essentially, "The Great Doorstep" is "Tobacco Road" with a Louisiana accent, and without the filth. The former is annoying, and the latter leaves you without even anything to argue about. The result is a waste of the fine comedy sense of Louis Calhern, who plays the leading role of Commodore Crochet, and of the sensitive dramatic talent of Dorothy Gizh, here his over suffering wife...
...Crochets are a peculiar bunch. They live in a decrepit shack in the bayous, breed children at will, and dream about building a house to go with the beautiful doorstep their oldest son found floating down the river one day. Papa is lazy, shiftless, and--inevitably--lovable. Mother is patient. The children are characters. And that's the play, with bliss in the form of a bunch of lilies inevitably hoisting the Crochets a step nearer heaven...