Word: furlough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perfect Furlough. The usual soldier farce, but Director Blake Edwards has turned it out with professional polish. Good conduct medal: Tony Curtis...
...Perfect Furlough (Universal-International) is an almost perfect formula farce. The formula...
...most promising young masters of movie comedy, have applied the formula with such style that the studio has been able to guarantee the customers exactly 287 (count 'em) laughs without fear of refund. And while the public rolls in the aisles, the professionals should take careful notice. Furlough is a definitive encyclopedia of comic cliche...
...brisk start with Cliché No. 1: an Army outpost in the Arctic, in which 104 G.I.s sit stiff with boredom. Until Cliché No. 2, a gorgeous psychologist (Janet Leigh) of the WAC, recommends a policy of vicarious leave-send one man on a perfect furlough and let the others enjoy themselves thinking about it. The scheme naturally produces Cliché No. 3, a shamelessly corporeal corporal (Tony Curtis), who wins the raffle and is shipped off to spend three weeks in Cliché No. 4, Paris, with Cliché No. 5, a South American screen queen (Linda Cristal...
Worms notwithstanding, Teacher Duff plans to end her year-long Stateside furlough this month, fly back to continue educating the Amueshas. Her task: to teach the Indians to read, to transcribe literature-including the Bible-into Amuesha. using a phonetic alphabet she helped devise...