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...Promoter. A sprightly British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Promoter (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a sprightly spoof that gives Alec (The Man in the White Suit) Guinness a role ideally suited to his deadpan comedy talents-that of a droll, eccentric fellow who achieves success not through industry or intelligence but through sheer brass. As Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin, Guinness is a washerwoman's son who gets ahead in the grimy town of Bursley. In grade school, he casually doctors his examination grades to pass with flying colors. Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list...
...sporadically amusing spoof, Bonzo Goes to College leans almost entirely for its laughs on the mugging of its sawed-off leading man. Looking something like a cross between Mickey Rooney and William Bendix in a porkpie hat, Eton jacket and long trousers and suspenders, Bonzo somehow manages to keep the show going without any visible assistance from writers, director and supporting cast...
Tonight We're Setting the Woods on Fire (Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine; Columbia). Songstress Stafford throws her bestselling voice behind two trends: 1) a duet with another popular singer, and 2) a hillbilly song. This one is a razzmatazz spoof on a pair of country folk on their way to a Saturday night spree. It is fast and loud, and its whipcracking arrangement gives it a fine juke-box flavor...