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...Ladykillers (Rank; Continental) is another Alec Guinness romp, in some ways even funnier than his 1951 Lavender Hill Mob. It is also a refreshing parody on the current rash of U.S. films, e.g., The Desperate Hours, The Night Holds Terror, in which humble citizens are terrorized by hoodlums...
...appointment he keeps whenever he can is his 6 p.m. romp with his two-year-old granddaughter, Tedde, daughter of his 28-year-old daughter, Mrs. Frank Thompson. (His two sons, Ted in the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., and Bob at Denison University, are unmarried.) After dinner there is more work: meetings at the church, civic committees and visiting ill parishioners. He has no hobbies-apparently he needs none. The gentle calm in his blue-grey eyes, in his slow, broad smile, in his unhurried passage through a 16-hour day, baffles those who know him only casually. Says...
...Time for Sergeants (adapted by Ira Levin from the novel by Mac Hyman) offers a really good evening of simple-minded fun. Less a play than an episodic romp, it tells of Will Stockdale, an incorrigibly good-natured young hillbilly who is inducted into the U.S. Air Force. Will puts his foot in his mouth as nonchalantly as though it were his pipe; he triumphs over every crisis by never knowing he is in one; he stands the Air Force on its ear by looking everyone guilelessly in the eye. So backwoods as not to know that a sergeant...
Like corn like picture. The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness. But the demand of the giant screen is for size and spectacle. The figure of Laurie, far away and touching as she sings Out of My Dreams ("and into your arms"), becomes on the screen a colossal closeup in which the heroine's left nostril alone is large enough to park a jeep in. The dances, too, come far too close for comfort. Though Agnes de Mille revised them for the camera, they now seem more like sophomore...
Whether altogether frigid or partly immature, ruthlessly self-centered Josephine Perry is interesting to watch in a play that begins like another romp about a junior miss up to junior mischief, only to grow steadily more sober in tone. As Josephine, Lois Smith has the right looks and essential right talent, but works with too few and too showy gestures. And the storytelling is often unflexed and even languid. But along with entertainment value in its lighter moments, The Young and Beautiful has shock value and a pinch of substance...