Word: slapstickers
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...NATIVE-Jack Oakie, the backbone of a slapstick frame dressed up with one or two gay songs...
What a Widow (United Artists). This is a violent attempt to rouse laughter by an expenditure of physical energy. The attempt is a failure. One is surprised at first to see a film star so securely established as Gloria Swanson engaging in furious slapstick, but after the novelty has worn off the humor also disappears...
...comedy, a war picture of the hommes 40 chevaux 8 type, was above the average. Even the slapstick seemed funnier than usual. Another feature was an excellent display of football scrimmages in slow motion interspersed with explanations by Knute Rockre...
...NATIVE?Good example of the modern school of slapstick, starring Jack Oakie (TIME, Sept...
...Native (Paramount). In spite of hilarious moments of good slapstick, and the deft spontaneous playing of Jack Oakie, this is the kind of picture that disappoints its makers and audiences because neither can figure out why it isn't funnier. The trouble really is that it is a comedy built around a comic situation. That is a dramatic fallacy. Only the great geniuses of slapstick-and Oakie's talent is not for that-can make a funny situation funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes...