Word: slapstickers
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...each play Coward masters a different type of humor, the first, slapstick, the second, strict dialogue, and last, absurd situation. because deft, definitive character portrayal makes the film, the abilities of the actors are paramount, and direction by the author, though quite adequate, is of secondary importance. The acting is clever and witty, fitting perfectly Mr. Coward's lines...
...slapstick phase, "The Red Peppers," involves a husband-wife song and dance team who have trouble getting bookings and losing their pride. All ends happily, though, as Kay Walsh and Ted Ray, playing the leads, succeed in turning on the sprinckler system and drenching the complaining manager...
...film milks a few laughs by dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...
Once Potts discovers that he is carrying top-secret papers, the film switches from an agreeable spoof of security agents to a slapstick comedy of Keystone Cops vintage. Trying desperately to hide the plans, Potts teeters on the window ledge of a Moscow hotel, temporarily loses himself among the parading delegates of an East Berlin World Peace Congress, leaps dizzily from rooftop to rooftop with police in hot pursuit...
...originated by Irene Dunne, Gary Grant and Ralph Bellamy. It also adds Technicolor and several songs and dances. Unhappily, it subtracts much of the romping good fun of the original, perhaps because the cast is not quite as proficient, and because Director Leo McCarey is no longer wielding the slapstick...