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...Male Animal (Warner) brings laconic Humorist James Thurber's famed War-Between-the-Sexes to the attention of its biggest audience yet. This semi-ludicrous, semipainful combat, which Thurber wrote all the way into a Broadway hit (with Co-Author Elliott Nugent) two years ago, is the most refreshing comic material Hollywood has encountered in a long time. The resulting cinema, though overlong and talky, is a delightful comedy charged with impish innuendo and raw laughter...
This well-pastried pie of sense and nonsense is ably dished out by Protagonists Fonda and de Havilland. Co-Author Nugent, who directed, fails to reduce it from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...
...playing days he resembled and tried to imitate Immortal Hans Wagner. He has 39 years of baseball behind him. But it will take more than experience to shove the Phillies out of the National League cellar. Reason: in order to keep the club from the sheriff, its owner, Gerald Nugent, is forced to sell his most promising players...
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