Word: drollness
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TOPKAPI. Istanbul is a thieves' carnival, with Melina Mercouri eying the emeralds and Peter Ustinov scaling the laughs in Director Jules Dassin's droll comedy of love and larceny, his best since Rifth...
...Wirtz, who would be glad to move from the Labor Department to the most important domestic Cabinet job. Wirtz, an old law partner of Adlai Stevenson and widely respected labor lawyer, has gained Johnson's friendship in the past months as speech coordinator for the Presidential campaign. A quiet, droll liberal, Wirtz would appeal to the Kennedy team but would not alienate the South...
MARY POPPINS. Julie Andrews proves she is a girl to conjure with in Walt Disney's droll musical fantasy about a London nanny who slides up banisters and performs all sorts of diverting miracles...
...KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all but bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and at times almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts...
Doctor in Distress is a movie title containing a germ of self-diagnosis. Britain's popular Doctor series, begun nearly ten years ago, has, with this fifth reprise, taken a decided turn for the worse. All the hospital hanky-panky is still there. All the droll British bit players. All the anatomical jokes, delivered by Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) and Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whose medicareers have provided them with a decade of job security. But the humor has grown progressively more frail, foolish and familiar. Nobody really cares when the adipose Sir Lancelot goes...