Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoons accompanying the feature are ingenious blends of humor and imagination. Done in the style of Gerald McBoing-Boing, Rooty Toot Toot recreates the story of Frankie and Johnny as a courtroom parody and the Grizzly golfer relates the exploits of near-sighted Mr. McGoo, who mistakes at bear for his caddy. It is heartening to see a cartoon which relies more on witty dialogue and imaginative drawing than on the blatant sadism exhibited in the usual Disney production...
...keeps faith with its material. But about much of it there seems something straggling and merely approximate: it lacks form, it needs more expressive detail, more evocative language. And it is coarsened by Joshua Logan's direction, which often pedal-thumps the sex and placards the humor and pathos...
...There is humor too. Even in the moments of strongest feeling there are elements of the ludicrous and the whimsical, springing mainly from an inter-family feud that weaves its way through the picture. But the humor is strictly secondary; Forbidden Games is a chronicle of people in turmoil, and as such it is high tragedy indeed...
...often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...
...Colditz Story, Author Patrick Reid tells how he and some of his fellow captives raised the risky business of escape to something close to an art. As a narrator, Reid achieves a blend of humor and clean storytelling that makes this just about the best of the many escape books of World...