Word: ronkel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important fault: it plays its satire too safe. But the script, by Rip Van Ronkel, is written with a nice sense of pace. The camera, moreover, is wittily used. The long, slow start in which the husband and wife go through the motions of getting ready for work is a piece of slickly observed americana. The acting is sound, too, even in the side parts. Best of all is the work of Director José Ferrer, who has even managed to coax a graceful, flexible performance out of wooden-faced Leading Man José Ferrer...