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What a period comedy generally needs is a strong hand in the cutting shears. Surprisingly, Director Lean has succumbed too often to a temptation to stand there with his shutter hanging open and stare at a prodigious exhibition of facial calisthenics. Laughton smirks, pouts, bug-eyes, belches, quivers his wattles, sleeve-wipes his nose, and generally golliwoggs it to a degree he has not attained since The Private Life of Henry VIII...
...apachefied Charles Dickens. Gnignol's Band depicts the life of French crooks in the underworld of London during the First World War. The book's hero, Ferdinand, is a victim of a German strafing attack, which leaves him feeling as if ''nailed to the shutter like an owl." He has a deafening singing noise in one ear. a gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably discharged but too beaten up to realize the fact. Ferdinand goes to London, where he makes a beeline for the French "colony" on the river ("That...
...complete identification of the picture, Counsel Jenkins called in Air Force Sergeant Herbert Richard Manchester, the superior of the enlisted man who actually snapped the shutter. Sergeant Manchester identified the fourth man whose sleeve appeared in the Welch print: it was McCarthy Aide Frank Carr, eliminated from the original print by the Air Force darkroom because he was looking away from the others in the picture...
...what he paid he was repaid in splendor, but not in comfort. Even his wife's room was icy in winter, broiling in summer, and the King would not allow her to put a shutter on her window "because it would mar the external symmetry...
...Beggar's Opera, John Gay's satire on the Italian operas of his day. Gay's comedy turned out to be the smash hit of the 18th century, so popular that it forced London's chief composer of Italian opera, George Frederick Handel, to shutter his own fashionable opera house and ultimately turn to writing oratorios. The Weill version took little but the characters from John Gay, was itself a satire on grandiose German operas. It so inflamed musical conservatives in Berlin that students rioted and stoned the theater where it was playing...