Word: plotlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheaper by the Dozen (20th Century-Fox] is a movie version of the bestselling based-on-fact book about life with a father of twelve in the 19205. A plotless string of mild, rambling anecdotes, with Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb miscast in the central role, it is not much more fun than leafing through somebody else's family album...
Once again the English have succeeded in turning one joke into an amusing though plotless movie. Although the English are undoubtedly not the world's greatest humorists, they are the masters of the drawing room titter, a talent which is fully exploited in "Tight Little Island...