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Facts of Life. A satirical, sometimes wonderfully nutty comedy of manners-and the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment-casts Bob Hope as a middleclass, middle-aged philanderer fumbling after Lucille Ball, and perhaps after the meaning of marriage...
...were in. Discussing the vagaries of show business, Gleason asked rhetorically how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop. "If this happened in a hospital . . . " He might also have asked how it was possible for one of TV's funniest performers (in the great days of The Honeymooners) to accept a mere M.C.'s part in an elaborate parlor game. At any rate, he nobly exonerated all the reviewers who had panned the program, even though they themselves don't know how to put on a show...
Facts of Life. A satirical, sometimes wonderfully nutty comedy of manners-and the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment-casts Bob Hope as a middleclass, middle-aged philanderer fumbling after Lucille Ball, and perhaps after the meaning of marriage...
...magnates of the TV laugh industry, set out to make a quiet little country-club comedy-partly for the mass audience, but partly also for their own pleasure in reading good material again after all those years in the yak pastures. To their considerable amazement, they have produced the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment-a quick, slick, slyly satirical and sometimes wonderfully nutty comedy of middle-class manners and middle-aged morals...
Perhaps the most obvious of Chukhrai's talents is his surefire sense of comedy. The poor hilarious schlemiel of a train guard, for example, might have shuffled right off one of Gogol's funniest pages. But certainly the deepest of his gifts is his vital, life-accepting sense of humor. In the film's strongest scene, a rabble of Russian soldiers, ragged and cold and hungry, roll through the night behind the battle lines like cattle stacked in a boxcar and heading for the knacker. They look at each other, they look at what life has done...