Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast, slapstick humor characteristic of director and book collaborator Abe Burrows is missing; the story, taken from Charles O'Neil's Christopher Prize novel, could be told unblushingly at a Sunday school outing...
Some plays are realistic and others present symbols or messages. A Little Evil, however, is a meatpie. The farcical lines, moralistic sermons, and Ozark philosophy mouthed by its characters are lacking in both humor and artistic insight. Unfortunately the playwrite, Alexander Greendale, is unable to bake his potpourri into a very theatrical dish...
...conscience and his humor are always breaking the surface of convention. This unobtrusive cleric, when teaching at a seminary, left the high table to sit with the students, in protest at the inferior food they were getting. That is Knox, a modest and conscientious breaker of the peace...
Knox has not reached his proper place in his church. Not everybody appreciates his humor.-There are some who agree with Dr. Johnson that "This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive." Yet there have been witty cardinals before now. Knox would not want to be a cardinal, but it would please many beyond his own communion if he became one. Waugh has compared his career to Newman's, but Newman wanted recognition; Knox does not. Nor was Newman a humorist...
...interplay between the two characterizations that gives this film its humor. As Eric Augustine attempts to handle Hedy Lamarr with calculated detachment, Peanuts White is neither calculated nor detached. As Augustine faces danger he is hard, cold. Peanuts White is soft, he melts...