Word: slapstickers
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...Rimbaud's violent life and his poetry, put the pieces back together in a sequence of nine charade-like "danced pictures." The pictures were full of familiar Ashton trademarks-the wit of Wedding Bouquet, the subtle fancy of Facade, the gay, gregarious pageantry and a little of the slapstick of Cinderella. And there were salty passages indeed; Rimbaud's (Nicholas Magallanes) painfully sexual grapple with Profane Love (Melissa Hayden) was both lurid and profane...
Marxian humor consists of two types. The sublimely lunatic Harpo wields the slapstick. He, as a personification of the Id, drops ice out of windows, cuts holes in floors, scatters passports to the wind, chases pretty girls, and gleefully slugs people he doesn't particularly like. Groucho handles the leering quip with illimitable finesse: ". . . some days I never got to bed at all--in those days a college widow stood for something." Chico, an underrated artist, is a good straight man and a master of the pun: "there ain't no Sanity Clause." Zeppo tries hard, but he's only...
Watching the Marx Brothers presents some problems. If you laugh at the slapstick, you miss the wisecracks; and if you go to the men's room, chances are that you will never regain the thread of the plot. The obvious and only solution is to see each movie at least three times. The last time you'll laugh at the slapstick routines before they occur, thus enabling you to catch most of Groucho's gags...
...king of the realm, whose handsome young son finally marries Cinderella. Fierce one moment and lovable the next, the king is the perfect foxy-grandpa type. He badgers his poor yes-man Duke, whose best efforts to please the king are never good enough. The slapstick scenes between these two are hilarious...
...underseas with Morgan, Morgan's on suppressing the film she shot in his craft. Most of the gags are pretty thin, e.g., a safecracker trying to open a sardine can and a lady who has lost her left shoe trying to cross a hotel lobby. But chiefly, the slapstick potboiler is saved by unpretentious acting and the leisurely direction of Michael Curtiz...