Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humor never disappears for long in Frank O'Conner's work. It is a sympathetic, almost humble humor which is as much written for the object as at him. "There are a lot of things old bishops have to put up with besides old age, loneliness, and lack of domestic comforts, and the worst of these is coadjutors. To be God Almighty tagged on you to see that your justice and morality are the proper kind, is a more than human ordeal...
...done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified so roguishly, with such good humor, that they both went free...
High and Dry is an apt description of where this picture leaves its moments of excellent humor. Stranded above a morass of soggy sentiment and damp moralizing are the touches that have pushed British comedy beyond popularity to the point...
...Brattle Theatre this week where Gunga Din, older than some of next year's Advanced Standing students, is making a comeback. This story of the waterboy who made good has passed well into its second decade, and it is a pleasure to report that the excitement and humor which pulled one's ancestors into the theaters have aged less than co-star Cary Grant...
Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, whose Front Page is still circulating, also engineered this movie, and its hectic, rarely subtle humor is their trademark. Except for the absence of a heroine, the nicest thing about Gunga Din is the movie's willingness to take itself with a block of salt. Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Victor McLaglen form a sort of Her Majesty's Three Musketeers in India. After a certain amount of intrigue and a little less suspense Din helps them to conquer a mysterious native tribe. The plot is exactly the same as it was 15 years...