Search Details

Word: slapstickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...slapstick comedy at La Locha was the fuse which exploded an attempt at counterrevolution in Guatemala last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Showdown | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Hulot's Holiday. A first-class slapstick comedy, partly in French, explaining how not to take a vacation (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...five programs old and still burdened by a lot of the usual slapstick, That's My Boy! is nevertheless making a meaningful attempt to get pathos as well as humor out of the delicate, universal problem of father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Daddy with a Difference | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...probably found Up in Arms a blissful picture of what war might be. But ten years later, it is only a painful reminder of the low points in mass-produced wartime movies. The ingredients of this Kaye-ration are the West Coast conception of a soldier's delight: slapstick, music, sex, and patriotism. Luckily, the comedy is provided by the master of them all and Danny Kaye's git-gat-gittle and patter songs are as good now as when Sam Goldwyn first plucked him off Broadway...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: Up In Arms | 5/4/1954 | See Source »

...always a pleasure to watch the two in action, and Nigel Patrick and Helen Sherrer give admirable support to the whimsy. When the picture does occasionally misfire, it is only because the script writers mis-measured that formula of slapstick and sophistication which the English usually prescribe with such success...

Author: By A. J. L., | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 5/4/1954 | See Source »

Previous | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | Next