Word: heckart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although murder and mental illness are hardly laughing matters. Director Jack Smight squeezes legitimate comedy from the corrosive camaraderie of Steiger and Segal in their hare-and-hound relationship. Not that the film is totally successful. Eileen Heckart, as Segal's mom, aims at Kosher salami but comes out Irish ham. And the end, heavy with Christian expiation, is as self-conscious as a Sunday-school morality play...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation-sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, shed tears over it, spoof it and sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation-sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, or shed tears over it, spoof it or sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Four playlets poke fun at man's desires and taboos in the pursuit of sex. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard project all the poignancy and lunacy of Robert Anderson's characters...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Four playlets poke fun at man's desires and taboos in the pursuit of sex. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard project all the poignancy and lunacy of Robert Anderson's characters...