Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still and all, for the customer who wants a little sentimental education, this is a pretty pleasant way to get it. Actors Chevalier and Brazzi ooze the old-world charm. Actress Kerr is lovely to look at, and in a comedy role reveals a subtle sense of humor and a refined capacity to express it. And the script is often amusing in a mildly risky way. "When I think," the heroine rages, "he was making love to all the others at the same time!" And her father replies with gentle horror: "Surely not at the same time...
After the first three strokes had been rowed, with the CRIMSON shell knifing to an early lead, the 'Poon cox raised his hand, and the starter, himself an officer of the humor magazine, called for a new start. Again the Crimeds shot ahead...
...Philip Alston Stone, 18, wrote this fictional portrait of a Southern demagogue last year when he was still in prep school (Hotchkiss). No male Sagan, Novelist Stone is a chip off the writing desk occupied by William Faulkner, his famed fellow townsman in Oxford, Miss. In his rhetoric, country humor and nightmare vision of social change and violence. Novelist Stone resembles Faulkner, much as a shrunken head resembles a life-sized...
...conception of comedy as presented here is generally quite low, resting on the two assumptions that all discomfort is a source of humor, and that any action can be made funny if it is repeated often enough. The best examples are the more subtle representations of these simple precepts: a woman walking away from having sat on a pie, not knowing that it was a pie; or the mass exposure of unfaithful husbands...
...best parts of the film, however, do not come under the sight gag category. Then, as now, parody was one of the movies' strongest sources of comedy, whether it was Will Rogers playing Robin Hood, or Ben Turpin as the latin lover. The best visual humor, only fleetingly dealt with here, was really the "dictionary of facial expressions" which could turn answering the telephone into a momentous occasion...