Word: slapstick
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...luck comes in threes: the past eight weeks have provided a melancholy chapter in U.S. dramatic history. Tennessee Williams (Slapstick Tragedy), Edward Albee (Malcolm) and William Inge have written by far their worst plays...
...Slapstick Tragedy. Tennessee Williams can sift the soul's gold from human dross. Unhappily, this double bill of one-acters. which closed after seven performances, is almost pure dross...
...about love, about music, and about the postwar world. Gallantly, he survives each pratfall (even when ordered to take a class in elementary shorthand when he should have been waving his long hands over an orchestra sawing out his own music). The reader laughs uneasily; this is no ordinary slapstick, nor a Chaplinesque comedy of awkward grace amid military bullies and oafs...
...square inch of space, when someone notices that gendarmes have surrounded the villa-not to reclaim the clean lucre, after all, but to capture a wild bull in the garden. Though Department Store follows the perennial Rififi formula, Director Pierre Grimblat has wrapped up an ingenious package of Sennett slapstick, Gallic gaiety and bits of Yuletide foolery that deserves to outlast the tinsel and snow...
...sheer fun, the top movie was Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, a nostalgic, slapstick, visual comedy closely followed by Cat Ballon, with Lee Marvin in a sidesplitting parody of all the drunken, woolly bad 'uns ever portrayed. For sheer horror it was Repulsion, by Poland s young Roman Polanski, the new master of the monstrous. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was the spy thriller to end all spy thrillers-and perhaps about time...