Word: slapstickers
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Doctor at Sea is a most appropriate title for this latest British contribution to broad brawl-and brothel humor. The Rankmen have wandered from the drawing room to tackle slapstick of the old formless Hollywood kind, and they seem almost as uncomfortable in this role as their earnest young doctor who is forced to cope with unreasoning sailors and voluptuous prostitutes. Given a crude genre, however, Doctor at Sea still manages to be highly amusing, to an uncritical audience...
...timid or revulsed male confronted with the fond, impetuous female. But even the most banal scenes (e.g. the predictable seasickness) are often delightful. Although one is always conscious that this is not illuminating comedy, it is entirely possible to enjoy it. Those ruled by a narrow prejudice against slapstick, however, must be warned...
...Return of Don Camillo (Rizzoli; I.F.E.), a sequel to The Little World of Don Camillo (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953), continues the slapstick story of Fernandel, a quirky priest who talks both to and back to God. and Gino Cervi, a hot-tempered Communist mayor whose redness seems no deeper than that of a radish...
...slapstick and clowning that has wrecked professional wrestling, the honest amateur variety still has its loyal fans. Probably the No. 1 wrestling town in the U.S. is Bethlehem, Pa. (pop. 66,340), home of Lehigh University. Probably the U.S.'s No. 1 wrestler: National Champion 147-lb. class) Edward ("Ike") Eichelberger, captain of Lehigh's wrestling team...
Once they are given a situation with some potential, the Marx Brothers tear into it with a delightful zest which makes up for much of the plot's weakness. Their skill barely saves many slapstick scenes from a fatal resemblance to televsion-style humor...