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...offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none of it is funnier than his mumbled, halting, nonchalant announcements of the ultra-obvious. And that is somehow extremely funny...
This is an odd beginning for a comedy-and comic True Confession is skillfully played and paced, keyed up to the pitch of the dizziest haywire skit. Yet what makes True Confession funnier than most haywire comedies is that as melodrama it could be just as effective. Neither liar Helen nor Kenneth, the man of principle, is caricatured, so their dilemma seems true and could be terrible; outside the hilarity nightmare is imminent...
...Pins and Needles in shape. Staged in a remodeled Manhattan cinema house, with an amateur cast and two grand pianos for orchestra, its rollicking satire made critics agree that I. L. G. W. U. members were class-conscious but not grim about it, that their show was funnier and faster than many a Broadway revue...
...Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town...
...Carol Hughes, he overcomes his fear of horses the bold way. In short the usual Brown formula is followed. A timid soul, he pretends to great prowess on the ponies, and what you imagine would happen does, and in a big way. This is among Joe Brown's funnier pictures, and the supporting cast, headed by the redoubtable Skeets Gallagher and the aforesaid Miss Hughes, who is attractive, in a hard, metallic way, bet still not a convincing actress...