Word: slapstickers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick comedy in Manhattan: a lengthy non-tonsorial correspondence was unearthed between Hairdresser Jordan and Hairdresser Hofmann...
...young leopard, and vaguely hoping to recover Mr. Grant's most precious possession: the intercostal clavicle of a prehistoric brontosaurus. It enlists the services of such tried-and-true comedians as Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, and May Robson, and includes every conceivable sort of comedy from the broadest slapstick to the subtlest incongruity. Largely through the efforts of Miss Hepburn, who has discovered a delightful flair for this sort of thing, but also through the cleverness of Mr. Grant, who plays the constantly thwarted zoologist to perfection, it succeeds in keeping the audience in an uproar for a solid hour...
Umpteenth in the current series of romantic-slapstick comedies, "Joy of Living," with Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is somewhat disappointing mainly because its cast arouses expectations of something better. This does not mean that it is not thoroughly amusing and considerably above the usual comedy run. However, the dialogue is uninspired and labored, and at times merely insipid. Some of the funny situations are drawn out until the last tortured laugh is extorted from unhappy spectators, while other situations are simply not funny. Such a thing is deplorable, for Miss Dunne and Mr. Fairbanks are as engaging...
Under the deft, directorial hand of Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby comes off second only to last year's whimsical high spot, The Awful Truth, but its gaily inconsequent situations cannot match the fuselike fatality of that extraordinary picture. Bringing Up Baby's slapstick is irrational, rough-&-tumble, undignified, obviously devised with the idea that the cinemaudience will enjoy (as it does) seeing stagy Actress Hepburn get a proper mussing...
With "Ebb Tide" and "Double Wedding" the University currently presents a perfectly balanced program. In the former, ostensibly a Technicolored South Sea melodrama, Hollywood makes excursion into the realm of the tortured mind. The latter comprises an easy to take William Powell and Myrna Loy combination of slapstick and witty dialogue...