Word: slapstickers
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James O'Neil, as the frustrated warrior, is superb in his slapstick role, and Joanna Brown, as his wife Myrrhine, handles the seduction scene quite aptly. The leader of the senile old men who oppose the younger and more virile warriors is well played by Michael Mabry...
...reworking most of the old jokes on cuckoldry and keeping the slapstick busy, the picture provides some mild amusement. Its single innovation proves its saving grace: the pivotal character who causes all the trouble is no disembodied voice this time but a quite fleshly rogue, played with jaunty elegance by Britain's Actor-Playwright Emlyn (Night Must Fall) Williams...
...story of the city girl's triumph makes as wholesome a batch of cornmeal mush as Hollywood has cooked up all year. Though some of the slapstick enlivens a few moments, Never a Dull Moment gives a moviegoer plenty of time to wonder why well-to-do Songwriter Dunne doesn't plow her royalties into the ranch and save everyone a lot of bother...
Though most of Louisa's arch humor misfires, seasoned Actors Gwenn and Coburn get some entertaining slapstick into their schoolboy posturings. Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey have little to do except exclaim about the way grandma is carrying on. As the daughter of the family, involved in a dreary little romance of her own, Piper Laurie plays a 17-year-old who seems to have matured every way except mentally...
...blonde Eva (Soprano Frances Yeend) was as charmingly impetuous as it should be. Her Walther (young German Heldentenor Hans Beirer) was impassioned, and in notable voice, in the Prize Song. And for once there was a Beckmesser (Baritone Emile Renan) who kept his comedy on the right side of slapstick. Altogether, it was a Meistersinger done with tender wit and the kind of freshness and spirit that brings cheering fans to their feet. Glowed ecstatic Friedrich Schorr, embracing-and being embraced-backstage when the final curtain was down: "Magnificent. I am so proud of my kids...