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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbit Trap (Canon; United Artists). Once upon a time there was a company man (Ernest Borgnine). He worked as a draftsman for a construction outfit, and the fellows all called him "Steady Eddie" because he was never late, never sick, never idle, never got a raise. One year the boss (David Brian) got bighearted and let him take a two-week vacation with pay. So Eddie piled the wife and kid in his '53 Chevy and headed for a place called Deep Springs, where there were some nice cabins, not too expensive. But after a couple of days...
Back home, the kid suddenly remembered the box trap he and his dad had set in the woods at Deep Springs. What if a rabbit got caught in it? Nobody would let him out and he would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip...
...colleague put it, "his jokes need Blue Cross." One chapter is called "India, or Put the Cobra Back in the Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...
Well Adjusted? The man who turns out such iridescent pap has also given the Paar show many of its permanent gags, including the bit in which balls of various size talk to each other (a pingpong ball will say to a golf ball: "Mabel, you've really got to give up sweets"). A lanky (5 ft. 11½ in., 170 Ibs.) man with a face like a TV portrait of Dorian Gray, Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having...
...ship he wanted was the Ile de France, the French Line's "Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic," winner of the Croix de guerre for service as a troopship during World War II. Stone got her, and last week he was ready to sink...