Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight conscripts of this British picture are painfully slow in breaking their civilian molds. 'Out of their early sullenness, bewilderment, arrogance and naivete, the producers have wrung convincing reality-and tempered it with genuine irony and humor. In putting it on the screen, a crew of excellent actors have more than exceeded the line of duty...
While in occasional scenes "A Royal Scandal" reaches a pinnacle of Hollywood humor, those who take no great joy in such oft repeated lines as Miss Bankhead's snappy "Shut up!" will find more of tedium in it than delight...
West Pointer Darby was a soldier's soldier, undismayed by his command's suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...
Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
Young Bernstein saw his fellow G.I.s in every stage of training and battle. The hardboiled humor that sparkles on his pages is an understated testament to their spirit and courage...