Word: hulot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original films. Jean Cocteau sent over, in Intimate Relations, what amounts to a formal photograph of an Oedipus complex: a devilish picture, devilishly well made. By contrast there was a flash of the old gaite parisienne in Beauties of the Night, by Rene Clair; and Jacques Tad, in Mr. Hulot's Holiday, composed something like a ballet of pratfalls. In Diary of a Country Priest, adapted from the novel by Georges Bernanos, the camera watched a body dissolve in spirit, while in Pit of Loneliness the spirit of a feeling woman was stifled in perverse carnality; troth touchy subjects...
...spectacular of the week starred Steve Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep...
...Hulot's Holiday. A first-class slapstick comedy, partly in French (TIME, June...
...Hulot's Holiday. A first-class slapstick comedy, partly in French, explaining how not to take a vacation (TIME, June...
Special Delivery. In Paris, Chemist Jean Hulot, suspecting his landlady of opening his mail, filled an envelope with rhodamine dye, mailed it to himself, caught the concierge redhanded...