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...love. The Navy objects, making at least one moral quite clear; goodies and evil just don't blend well. Otherwise, Seven Sinners emphasizes the lighter side with some funny lines ("Why don't you come up to my apartment for a snack . . . that's food") and plenty of slapstick. Aside from a few serious scenes which seem clumsy, the film is more than good...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Seven Sinners | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

With authors Chodorov and Fields employing almost every stock comedy angle, the case has no alternative but to play the comedian continually. The typical American family of Anniversary Waltz represents an inconceivable collection of wits, from the husband to the handyman. The play races along through jokes and slapstick with no member of the cast willing o able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after one act and pondering the question of which party, authors or cast, can keep up the pace...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Anniversary Waltz | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy and the Goddess with one wild stroke of the old slapstick provides a real Keystone Kop finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Write a brief essay on humor and slapstick in Plautus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Shot of Oxygen | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

After two weeks of rehearsal and constant rewriting of his script, Sherwood conceded that "TV is far and away the most difficult medium to write for, because of the terrific precision of the timing." Sherwood's second play, scheduled for February, is still untitled but "is full of slapstick and pratfalls." The third, to appear at Easter, will be a serious drama with a Biblical theme, called The Trial of Pontius Pilate. Says Sherwood: "I thought the first ones should be comedies. I wanted to sort of ease into television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Easing In | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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