Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...Fleming seemed pleased enough. ''Those who've read the book are likely to be disappointed," he said modestly, "but those who haven't will find it a wonderful movie. Audiences laugh in all the right places...
...scenes before Seller's reappearance are riotous, however. It is impossible not to laugh at the grotesque sight of an intoxicated Mason lying triumphant in a dirty bathtub, balancing his drink on his chest, following the death of his wife. A couple of neighbors come in to commiserate, and suddenly Humbert has to act sorry himself amidst his drunken stupor. Then the apologetic father of the cab driver who killed Mrs. Haze enters and offers to pay for the funeral expenses. Humbert, now quite confused, agrees, much to his benefactor's dismay...
...bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...apparently had his way with John Patrick's script and Gene Kelly's direction-movie houses will have to supply their ushers with rowboats. Fortunately, though, the sniffles are frequently punctuated with snickers, and now and then with a button-popping belly laugh. Gleason has a gift of mimicry that verges on genius, and there are moments in this movie when the thin man struggling to get out of the fat man seems to be Charlie Chaplin...