Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert thrusts through the tinsel of the perennial Hollywood rags-to-stardom saga. But Writer-Director-Producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who has successfully charred his bread and butter before (All About Eve). this time reaches so hard for significance that he loosens his grip on the ironic Hollywood spoof he almost has in hand...
...Friend (book, music & lyrics by Sandy Wilson) may very well prove the surprise hit on Broadway that it was in London. A gay, witty spoof of musicomedy during the '20s, it manages to hold up all evening by lacing its burlesque 'with nostalgia. It also avoids dangerous pitfalls by sticking to the musicals of the '20s and not going after the mores...
With mixed parts, mock science-fiction, spoof world government and vibrant nationalism, the film blends its "Yank (et al) Go Home" theme with broad comic touches. Most of the laughs are elementary, not far removed from slapstick. But they are so well timed and startling, often coming in the middle of a propaganda speech, that they are quite good...
...next scene is decorator's red, the next ultramarine blue, and so merrily on around the color wheel until the audience is almost too dizzy to realize that Red Garters is a snappy little spoof of cowboy pictures. Jack Carson plays the sow-bellied sheriff, Rosemary Clooney the lady known as Cal. Guy Mitchell is the man on the white horse, Gene Barry is the hombre on the black. Pat Crowley wears the gingham and blinks purty-like. There are a few harmless songs, some lively skedaddling by the dancers, and everybody seems to be enjoying himself...
Once Potts discovers that he is carrying top-secret papers, the film switches from an agreeable spoof of security agents to a slapstick comedy of Keystone Cops vintage. Trying desperately to hide the plans, Potts teeters on the window ledge of a Moscow hotel, temporarily loses himself among the parading delegates of an East Berlin World Peace Congress, leaps dizzily from rooftop to rooftop with police in hot pursuit...