Word: slapstickers
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...bill, but a 39-year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche nut in kook's clothing, whose act wanders in and out of plain idiocy, with every tired old slapstick gag in the joke book thrown in free. Among other things, he throws pies. And his fans were right there with him, saluting their hero with salvos of everything from teddy bears to a training...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Uxoricidal impulses, batted around with a slapstick by Jack Lemmon as a reluctant husband, Terry-Thomas as his woman-hating Man Friday, and Italy's Virna Lisi as the superfluous lady...
...MURDER YOUR WIFE. Uxoricidal impulses, batted around with a slapstick by Jack Lemmon as a reluctant husband, Terry-Thomas as his woman-hating Man Friday, and Italy's Virna Lisi as the superfluous lady...
...what he's thinking, makes you an accomplice in his delight. He and Philip Heckscher, as Macheath's helpmate filch, perfectly time their comic gestures to suit their songs. And they both have rich, pleasing voices. Richard Backus, as Locket, is the male counterpart of Miss Levine, a slapstick scene stealer with a comically mobile face. Unfortunately awkward, for he seems unsure of himself, stumbling over his lines and stiffly declaiming his songs. Still, he scowls enough to make an adequately evil Peachum...
Honest Man. Lind, the son of Austrian Jews who were deported and killed by the Nazis, mocks German pretensions of decency with slapstick caricature in the long title story. Wolbricht, the protagonist, prides himself on his honesty. A one-legged veteran of World War I, he is employed by a Jewish couple to care for their paralytic son, Anton. When the parents are ordered off to an extermination camp, he agrees to take care of Anton in return for the lease to their apartment...