| The actor gets to play two characters in this outrageous little comedy, a sort of screwball gangster film. |
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| Set in 1958, the screwball plot involves false identities and a literary hoax, chock-full of distinctive wisecracks delivered at breakneck speed. |
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| An opportunity to create a classic, timeless satire was squandered by going for a cheap attempt to soften the film into a screwball comedy. |
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| Whether it's action films or screwball comedies, most Hollywood movies focus on beautiful young characters. |
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| The film is foremost a screwball comedy, albeit one with considerable tang. |
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| His comedies combine screwball dialogue, slapstick and, fascinatingly, sly social critique, where morality is never clear cut. |
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| There's enough manic imbecility, though, to maintain the film's screwball tone. |
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| There was a scary moment when some screwball in an RV wouldn't let us pass on a country road. |
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| Viewed as a screwball and rebel by his teachers, he was a rare wit who provoked laughter and sometimes rage. |
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| If voters had any brains, they would find a way to ensure that she has much more time on her hands to pursue her screwball theories. |
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| The film is a pastiche of screwball and noir, full of fast talk, funny banter, and venetian blind shadows. |
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| Vaudevillian attempts at wacky accents and screwball banter lack rhythm and come off as flat as week-old pop. |
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| This film tries to revive the screwball comedy, yet despite wit and some hilarity, the main characters are just not likeable enough. |
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| Setting the play in the 1930s, she took her inspiration primarily from classical Hollywood screwball comedies and films noirs. |
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| The DVD case insert calls it a screwball comedy, but it's really more of a domestic one. |
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| Like many great screwball comedies, the film keeps rolling and rolling on pure, uninhibited energy. |
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| What do you aspire to if the content business is all about filling airtime cheaply or being a screwball night after night? |
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| Is Australia's comic style too laconic to fit the rapid-fire style of a classic screwball? |
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| Mae is a serious role, but Lombard's smart-alecky tough dame isn't far from the screwball heroines for which she's best remembered. |
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| It is a subject familiar to us from screwball farces, and one from which a straight drama could also be drawn. |
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| The Great Depression bequeathed us screwball comedy, a genre beyond the stars ' grasp in this train wreck of a revival. |
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| Too bad they loused it up with predictable plot elements and assorted screwball humor. |
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| He's been offered scads of money by Hollywood to helm screwball comedies in Tinseltown, and has offered them the bird back. |
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| Much of the material is, at least superficially, the stuff of screwball comedy. |
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| After some lean years, the spirit of indie US cinema is alive and kicking again and this may be the most anarchic romantic comedy since the heyday of screwball. |
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| At the moment I'm having a good time watching some of the golden screwball comedies of the '30s, '40s and '50s. as well as the films of Kurosawa. |
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| No wonder people are leery of the whole screwball outfit we have over there. |
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| No matter how brutal his subject, the movies are stuffed with joy, animated by screwball antics. |
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| Les Belles Soeurs promises laughter and pathos amidst a cast of screwball characters. |
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| We never tell him, 'Great screwball,' though, because then his elbow would hurt. |
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| The quirky tenor of his voice, combined with his observant, mocking tone, gelled perfectly with the screwball proceedings. |
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| While son Daniel tried to reason with his pops, screwball secretary Amanda provided the, um, entertainment. |
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| Many are reluctant to throw that 82 mile-an-hour screwball because they're afraid they're going to be changing the scoreboard with just one bad pitch. |
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| The batters had to wait, watch for the spin and break of the screwball. |
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| Usually this happens when they say something in a very haughty tone that doesn't make any sense, as though I should have anticipated their screwball question. |
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| He says it's all about writing around the idea or inspiration he has in mind, be it a pie in the face, a witty line, screwball situation or piece of music. |
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| A Service Pilot in one of my flights north had reported to Operations that I was a crazy, screwball pilot and that he was scared to fly along side me. |
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| Although it sounds like a madcap, screwball comedy, this film is a very touching drama about what lengths a young man will go to protect and care for his mother. |
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| Spahn was a port-sider who relied on his heater until a knee injury forced him to develop a screwball, which became his out pitch over the latter half of his career. |
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| Maybe it's his dazzlingly conceited grin, which is put to good use here in a screwball comedy that's put together like an action caper. |
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| The result of this malicious fraud: the good government now offers workers to return to work until age 70 with even more screwball benefits: that's scandalous. |
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| Stalag 17 Billy Wilder is best known for his screwball comedies but in 1953 made arguably the definitive PoW film of Hollywood's golden age, adapted from a Broadway play. |
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| Hey screwball, what are you doing, calling up evil spirits? |
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| As part of her mound accomplishments, she threw her screwball for a strike for the first time in her career. |
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| Lovesickby Alex Wellen A screwball comedy about small-town love. |
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| However, their rat-a-tat zaniness is a function of the genre, evidenced by virtually everyone in a screwball movie. |
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| The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms. |
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| Indeed, one of UFA Cinema's first productions to go before the camera this summer belongs to this category, with writer-director Otto Alexander Jahrreiss' screwball comedy Pigeons on the Roof. |
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| Charles Busch's screwball comedy about a timid gay electrologist who inherits a fortune. |
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| The Dressmaker 118mins 12A EVEN the best actors make bad decisions, but seeing Kate Winslet stooping to star in a screwball comedy this duff truly takes your breath away. |
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| Each struggles to avoid completely ruining the other's life while desperately trying to get his old one back in this screwball comedy from the makers of The Hangover. |
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| Potiche is a hilarious screwball comedy about a trophy wife who must take over her husband's business, featuring French superstars Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. |
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