Word: pluming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plume de Ma Tante. This French revue is as funny, and almost as silent, as a Keystone Cops movie...
...Plume de Ma Tante. This French revue is as funny and almost as silent as a Keystone Cops movie...
...Plume de Ma Tante. If the producers of this madcap French revue chance to do a sequel, the late Wallace Stevens provided a title: Le Monocle de Mon Oncle...
...Plume de Ma Tante. Two dozen Frenchmen can't be wrong in this mad and merry revue...
G.B.S. made British General John Burgoyne an Act Ill-only character, but the moviemakers have wisely fattened up the part to the measure of Sir Laurence Olivier. As fox-sly "Gentleman Johnny," Olivier struts, smirks, sneers and, from under a preposterously foppish plume, spouts the withering witticisms that kept the original play stylish even while it was out of balance. Sample: "Martyrdom, sir, is the only way in which a man can be come famous without ability." And when Douglas pleads for death by firing squad rather than by hanging, Burgoyne asks: "Have you any idea of the average marks...