Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Live at the P.O., one of the best, uses the Popeye-esque wranglings of a batty family for amazingly powerful purposes. Miss Porter calls the heroine "a terrifying case of dementia praecox"; she is also a first-rate showpiece of American humor...
...this show, however, the result is surprisingly good. Using a slightly shopworn plot of boy-meets-girl-with-funny-ideas, the picture ranks among the better comedies of the year thanks to slapstick by a half dozen bit players and humor by the leads...
...first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...
...series of alternating songfests and bursts of earthy, or rather marine humor are strung together by a plot involving the fleet gunnery prize, an expert gun-pointer whose hitch expires just before target practice begins, and the girl who persuades him to re enlist. Jack Oakie, who has staked his petty officer's savings and his ship's trophies on the outcome, exercises more ingenuity and resourcefulness than his script-writers. Martha Raye opens her mouth wide, and makes faces, Ann Sheridan is also in the cast...
...fact that, after 29 years in Hollywood, leathery, hair-shy George Marshall (Destry Rides Again) has no superior in the business of making Westerns. It is also a prize exhibit of what can be done with the tried-&-true Western formula when its melodrama and cliches are informed by humor and a straight...