Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem becomes critical when the correspondent threatens to denounce Marblehead, in print, for building an officers' club while the men have none. Marblehead gets out of that one by forcing his officers to build the clubhouse themselves -a project that produces a gorgeous slapstick sequence, easily the funniest scene in the picture...
...longest. Last week the show tried an adaptation of Topaze, Marcel Pagnol's tart comedy about a naively idealistic French teacher who is gulled by a grafting politician until he turns the tables, learning at last that vice is its own reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit...
Britain's famous Finest Hour, in the happy hindsight of peace, was also one of its funniest...
Impresario Hoffnung hopes soon to introduce his music to the U.S. live, by staging a similar production in Manhattan. Meanwhile, his record remains the funniest musical joke in years. "A breath of fresh air," said one London critic. "I admired particularly the coloratura attack and secure intonation," said another, speaking of a vacuum-cleaner player...
...satiric points. He plays for the box-office score instead, working the sex angles and the big names and the "production values" -yum-yum Metrocolor, flossy furniture, slinky clothes-with the skill of a cold old pro. The comedy is kept on a fairly low commercial plane too. The funniest line concerns a retired pugilist. "Who is that man with no nose?" asks wife Bacall suspiciously. "Oh, he has a nose," says husband Peck defensively. "It's inside...