Word: slapsticker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Faulkner, a former WPA official, tells this shabby and pathetic tale with great literary tact, balancing against the slapstick ignorance and innate apathy of his unheroic characters, their deep sense of their own personal dignity, natural courtesy, terrible patience, thwarted honesty. No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest...
...Buck Privates this dizzy pair of former burlesque comedians laid down a barrage of slapstick that was often agonizingly, if familiarly, funny. In The Navy their wacky, old-style fast talk gets snagged in the bony vocalizing of the Andrews Sisters, in the infantile attempts of Crooner Powell to get away from it all, in thousands of dollars worth of Universal props. Despite these expensive handicaps, sour-pussed Bud Abbott and outsized Lou Costello manage to resurrect many a guffaw for low-comedy devotees...
...irony which controls and blends extreme psychological slapstick with suggestions of the most sinister and sorrowful mysteries of life...
...even brought up the matter. Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet tradition...
...Jewish barber, shaving customers to waltzes, beating storm troopers to the punch in street battles, and making love to Paulette Goddard, it's the old Charlie Chaplin of "Modern Times" with pantomime and fine expressive acting. But as Hynkel, the dictator, Charlie either falls flat or resorts to simple slapstick of the three stooges type to get his laughs...