Word: slapsticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bracken's best, it comes through with a story that keeps the audience moderately jittery for nearly an hour. Two murders on a college campus are the basis for this murder mystery which conceals the villain's identity in the best Nick Carter style, while befuddling the audience with slapstick. Neither picture will be accused of belonging to the year's top ten, and they aren't too far from the bottom...
...Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," produced in 1906 and directed by Edwin S. Porter, in which Thomas Edison introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings of satire with Buster Keaton's portrayal of the Robinson Crusoe of a machine wilderness. The Society has planned three more performances for July 27, August...
...House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began to bleed. L'Action bragged: "We do not want to upset the Republic; we want...
...Bolger, with his unsurpassed clowning and comedy dancing, sets the pace for the show, as the original pansy, Sapiens. Take his rendition of a naughty balled entitled "Life With Father," for instance, or his slapstick technique with Benay Venuta, the properly Amazonian Hippolyta, in "Ev'rything I've Got Belongs To You." Constance Moore, recruited from the flickers, is a pretty dish as the strong and tasty Antiope. She doesn't know what to do with her hands yet, but her songs are well delivered and she has a nice comic sense...
...comic possibilities of the Nazi philosophy. "To Be Or Not To Be," with the late Carole Lombard, is much in the same vein. Like the "Dictator," it succeeds in making us laugh at the most horrifying reality of our age; like the "Dictator" it applies the vigorous technique of slapstick to the logical absurdities of Nazism; like the "Dictator" it is slightly carried away by good intentions into a lapse of maudlin didacticism, aline to the spirit of the whole...