Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieutenant Wore Skirts (20th Century-Fox) is an absent-minded re-scratch of The Seven Year Itch. It may rub sensitive spectators the wrong way, but no matter. Whenever there is a possibility that the audience may get really sore, Actor Tom Ewell applies his soothing sense of humor...
...made the joints of the arm just long enough to carry a glass to the mouth without missing the mark. He had his era's versatility, the tinkering curiosity, the sublime belief in the answerability of all questions-but all that with a Philadelphia accent of thrift and humor. Even crusty New Englander John Adams, seemingly too patrician to accept a self-made boy at his true worth, had to admit: "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen...
Thenceforward, the Holmes house reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
Only the Marx Brothers could have produced genuine humor from so superficial and ridiculous a plot. The story, when salvaged from moose heads, flying turkeys, and the like, centers about the attempts of Groucho's penniless producer, to get enough money for food and theatrical costs before he is evicted from his hotel room. "The show must go on" antics provide the entire plot, the rest being elaboration. As a result, the film sometimes drags and the jokes become tedious, but the movie closes with scenes so hilarions that Martin and Lewis seem low-ranking amateurs by comparison...
Once they are given a situation with some potential, the Marx Brothers tear into it with a delightful zest which makes up for much of the plot's weakness. Their skill barely saves many slapstick scenes from a fatal resemblance to televsion-style humor...