Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards head the cast of a rowdy indoor western about a high-stakes poker session. Only a trick ending flaws Director Fielder Cook's shrewd blending of hot hands and ham instincts...
...villa by Bavaria's Tegernsee, a West German industrialist recently celebrated the 18th birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were...
Douglas Watson is right to ham up the part of Pistol, since it was written as a satire on the bombastic acting style of a rival theatre troupe from which Shakespeare had seceded. Watson's gestures often clarify the bawdy puns; and, after striding a barrel as though it were a horse, he engages in a duel so vigorously that he discovers at the end that his groin flap has fallen down...
...HAND FOR THE LITTLE LADY. Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards head the cast of a rowdy indoor western about a high-stakes poker session. Only a sympathetic trick ending flaws Director Fielder Cook's shrewd blending of hot hands and ham instincts...
Actors are the whole show, and shrewd Producer-Director Fielder Cook simply collects a boodle of famous and not-so-famous faces in a smoke-filled room, leaving the rest to hot hands and ham instincts. In a plot that tingles with incentives, "the five richest men in the territory" converge on a poky frontier town for their annual poker classic. An Indian massacre would probably cause less excitement, certainly less fanaticism. To get there on time, Mortician Charles Bickford all but burns the wheels off his best hearse. Landowner Jason Robards, biting into every line like a hungry barracuda...