Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly a parody of the manners of Society in the English 1890's. Its characters are frequently rude on purpose, never by accident; they often exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young man of the Wildean haut monde would never dream of endangering the seat...
Nothing of the sort can be said for anyone else in the cast, though John Lasell as Jack and Wendell Clark as Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium...
...Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (20th Century-Fox). "I," sighs Horace Pennypacker Jr. (Clifton Webb), "will go down in history as the most misunderstood man of my century.'' The century is the 19th, and the remarkable Mr. P., a prominent Pennsylvania manufacturer (Pennypacker's Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus...
...trouble and the fun begin when Mrs. Pennypacker (Dorothy McGuire) discovers that Mr. Pennypacker, who spends every other month away from home on business, has made an even greater contribution to the growth of Philadelphia: nine sturdy young Pennypackers. Illegitimate? "Mr. Pennypacker," an innocent clergyman confidently declares, "is a family man." Bigamy? "Morality," Mr. Pennypacker proposes, "is merely a matter of geography." What is right in Salt Lake City cannot be wrong in Harrisburg -or even in Philadelphia...
Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...