Word: slapstickers
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Sleepwalking, one of the standbys of slapstick humorists, is actually no laughing matter. It is often a symptom of a serious neurosis. And, contrary to popular belief, sleepwalkers are not immune to harm: they are a danger to themselves and others. Instances...
...does not measure up to "Forgotten Paradise," the silent film to which Ernst Lubitsch now adds dialogue and Tallulah Bankhead. Wielding its satire with too broad a hand, "A Royal Scandal" has lost the flavor of the original, and director Otto Preminger finds himself left with something too slapstick to be convincing...
Rome's humorous weekly Cantachiaro (Chanticleer) has crowed impudently ever since liberation. It has no political ties, boasts that it is an "anti" periodical. Under youthful, clever Editor Franco Monicelli, it has flung satiric articles and slapstick cartoons at whomever and whatever it pleases, not stopping at the Italian Government and the Anglo-American masters...
...case, though dutifully dippy at intervals, Laffing Room Only is more often just a loud, vulgar Broadway revue-corn, slapstick and smut, with some fancy production numbers thrown in for size. The slapstick and smut are out of vaudeville's filing cabinet, and the bottom drawers at that. The production numbers, if easy to look at, are nothing to listen to. The corn, as usual, is served up home-style with the audience encouraged to compete for prizes, wave handkerchiefs, sing round songs, dance with chorines-as though they were paying for exercise as well as entertainment...
Soon the check bounces. So does the bobbysock idol, who is tossed about by accelerated slapstick like a Boy Scout in a blanket. In less tumultuous moments he sings, dances, makes love simply, smiles. These accomplishments are more or less superfluous. As shuddering exhibitors remember from his first picture, Sinatra's name on the marquee is sufficient to guarantee lipsticky posters on the outside, moaning galleryites within...