Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small Fry and Magic Cottage lean toward whimsy and traditional fairy tales. Captain Video plunges the adolescent into the science-fiction world of interplanetary travel and electronic marvels. It features epic, if inconclusive struggles between the forces of Good, headed by humorless Captain Video, and Evil, personified by a hand-rubbing eccentric named Doctor Pauli who, as president of the Astrodial Society, pettishly wants to destroy the earth...
...Churchill vividly describes things in The Hinge of Fate, Volume IV of his massive history, The Second World War, it was quite a party. It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two. When Churchill, with a twinkle, accused Molotov of delaying his return from the U.S. so that he could shake his NKVD guards and have a visit on the town in Manhattan, Molotov turned, Churchill thought, "rather serious." Stalin played it for a laugh: "It was not to New York he went...
Peggy (Universal-International) is a great waste of costly Technicolor and able actors. It sacrifices such good comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...
...Friend informed me after night's performance of "Yes M'Lord" that the play was humorless and dull. Therefore I enter the reservation that those who aren't addicted to English drawing room comedies won't like this one. The rest of this review is solely for those fortunate...
East Side, West Side (MGM) is a humorless, slightly awed look at Manhattan's gossip-column set as it might be presented to daytime radio fans. The picture makes a showcase for the specialties of its four glittering stars: Ava Gardner's blissfully pneumatic figure, James Mason's decadent inflections, some high-toned suffering by Barbara Stanwyck and the impulsive histrionics of Van Heflin...