Word: reels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit-agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit - watching agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...plot unreels like something left over from an ancient Fu Manchu serial. Together with a friend, Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), Millie wanders dizzily around town, avoiding the clutches of a wicked witch of a whiteslaver (Beatrice Lillie) and her gang of scrutable Orientals. In the last reel, both girls foil the villains and tie up their happiness with big pink beaux (James Fox and John Gavin...
...last reel, Drummond destroys the nasty fellow and his felonious female assistant with the aid of a booby-trapped hairpiece and a colossal computer-controlled chess set. The kids may welcome all this automated mayhem; the oldtimers will simply conclude that poor old Bulldog has lost his bite...
...annual stockholders' meeting last week, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took over a cavernous Times Square theater currently showing rival 20th Century-Fox's The Bible. MGM's own epic turned out to be a mixture of real life and reel life. President Robert H. O'Brien showed a 25-minute promotional film featuring clips from the company's latest motion pictures, the theme being that MGM's Leo the Lion has been bellowing forth lately with a "roar heard round the world." For one conspicuous member of the audience, that was not enough...