Word: knockabouts
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...Notte Brava (Ajace; Miller) wants to be a child's garden of dolce vita: a pretentious prologue announces that "this picture symbolizes the widespread immoral conduct prevalent among our young, presenting its facts with brutal significance." What the moviegoer actually gets is a fitfully funny knockabout with an ancient theme, the falling-out of thieves. Three young punks (Jean Claude Brialy, Laurent Terzieff, Franco Interlenghi) flap-foot about Rome, trying to sell some stolen guns (their fence is busy with a funeral), trying to cheat some prostitutes (the girls cheat them), trying to betray one another, trying to impress...
...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The Poles, of all people, rediscover a truth from U.S. silent-film days: that while the police may not be funny, policemen are -and the result is a wacky cops-and-robbers knockabout...
...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The solemn may see political protest in this wacky knockabout in a Polish nighttown, but most viewers will view it as the goofiest farce since the Keystone Kops...
...Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The solemn may see political protest in this wacky knockabout in a Polish nighttown, but most viewers will view it as the goofiest farce since the Keystone Kops...
Follow a Star (Rank; Zenith) is a rickety vaudeville vehicle designed to display the low-comedy high jinks of British Buffoon Norman Wisdom, an artificial hybrid who seems to have resulted from the cross-pollination of Tom Ewell Jerry Lewis and an otter. Wisdom plays a knockabout Cockney trying to sing his way from pants presser to Palladium. Enroute, he falls off a psychiatrist's couch is clobbered over the head by a fat-lady voice coach ("We must always remember to keep our vowels open!"), gets stuck astraddle a spiked, swinging gate. When that gets rusty, he drops...