Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second to Fernandel himself, what makes the film come over so well is the excellent script by Gerald Cartlier. Never does it lag and never does he overwork a gag. Director Jean Boyer also deserves credit for this excellent bubbling flow that is the strength of the picture...
...Bishop Sheen, and Lawyer Joseph Welch quietly flaying the late Senator McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." Milton Berle, the granddaddy of TV comics, came out of retirement to give the Infant its best moments. Shorn of his gag-machine brassiness, Berle strolled through his old studio, recalling warmly, yet a little wearily, how "back there at the beginning, TV was a great opportunity for anybody who was hammy enough to say 'Here...
Along Manhattan's Madison Avenue, where no one ups periscope without first checking with the research boys, admen were passing around the latest gag...
...this pie was still in the sky, so were two Sputniks. For days past, Karandash, a famed Russian clown, had been convulsing Moscow audiences by exploding a small balloon, then explaining, "That is the American Sputnik." Never one to pass up a surefire gag, Nikita, too, harped on U.S. discomfiture: "The U.S. announced that it was preparing to launch an earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia...
...those breezy, mass-aimed, gag-and-garter comedies that now and then run for a year or more, Fair Game boasts a decidedly helpful production. Sam Levene is a deft low-comedy actor, Ellen McRae a fresh and attractive heroine, Robert Webber a likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses...