Word: tediousness
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...tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest (12,349 ft.). Called Aorangi (Cloud Piercer) by the Maoris, Cook is a tough enough test for a professional mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Everest, practiced there; many lost their lives in the attempt...
...drunk, however, is a drunk, and 117 minutes is a very long time to have one around. The audience has plenty of leisure in which to realize that if there is anything more tedious than a lush, it is apt to be a reformed lush...
...attempts of Groucho's penniless producer, to get enough money for food and theatrical costs before he is evicted from his hotel room. "The show must go on" antics provide the entire plot, the rest being elaboration. As a result, the film sometimes drags and the jokes become tedious, but the movie closes with scenes so hilarions that Martin and Lewis seem low-ranking amateurs by comparison...
While glibly moving about in the triangular affair, Cary and Kerr deliver innumerable jokes, which, like the situation, eventually become strained and tedious. It is only with the aid of some harem scenes, in both American and Bhoukistani versions, that the movie survives. The survival, however, is rather precarious for viewers who want more than a situation comedy, with just too many variations and glib jokes...
Shapley believes that the report was just a way to get headlines. "Beyond the same tedious material that McCarthy floundered with, there in nothing new here," he said...