Word: madcaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...
...Basil Rathbone tells the audience Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...
Maurice Evans and Edna Best change their peace from a mismatched couple filled with hate for each other, in the first one-act play of Terrance Rattigan's "Double Bill," to a madcap theatrical team in the second...
...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...
...line fillers masquerading as limericks. Take "Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour de force...