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Joseph Kraft was the funniest, frantic in his role as the guardian of the nation's self-image. In a column called "Nashville, the motion picture, tries--but fails--to tell what's wrong with America," Kraft points out the danger of trying to sum up the country. Indeed, "the analytic tools shaped by the likes of Marx and Freud have come to grief trying to define what's wrong." Leading into an interpretation of the film, he writes that "the film's view of the nation's flaws is so general and so wrong that it seems useful...
...with Ernst Lubitach directing Jack Benny as the noted and great polish actor Joseph Tura, this is one of the funniest movies ever made What's amazing about it is when it was made in 1942, a bit before the U.S. got into the war: unlike most films of the early forties, and particularly those that Hollywood churned out when we were fighting in it (which are lulling and sentimental and silly), this comedy is sharp and wicked as can be. That's Lubitach, I guess. The scene is the German occupation of Warsaw, where Benny and friends outwit...
...SCENE in which luncheon is served by Snorty and Kay, now disguised as a maid, is the funniest in the whole play. Soup is inevitably spilled, plates dropped, and strange crashes are heard from the direction of the kitchen, "Oh, that must be the salmon." McGee explains to the guests. "The cat's had it on the floor three times already." Snorty's calm, almost scholarly manner makes a nice counterpoint to all the chaotic running around, and Maxwell's subtle performance is a welcome break from the usual mugging...
...funniest moment came when the Cambodians were about to release us. Early Thursday morning the camp commander, who had been a smiling-type fellow, came in. Now he looked like he had just lost his fortune in a poker game. He had to give up his prize. But before he let us go, he lined us all up and had his No. 2 man take our pictures...
...after Arthur slashes his arm off (blood spurts as if from a faucet); Arthur then chops his other arm off, and then each of his legs, before moving on. There's really nothing funny about it. The keynote of the humor is gore. Even in what may be the funniest moment of the film, when a small white rabbit guarding a cave catapults into the air and saws off a knight's head (more blood) with his teeth, it's too disgusting and unfunny to laugh at much...