Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace which could have been tremendously effective only served to show up the cast. Erford Gage was, of course, the exception. Another exception might be made of Alice Wiley who, taking the part of Mrs. Terrence, the housekeeper, livens up her scenes with a humor adding much to the lines...
...heroes and villains, its personal adventure and romance, continued to come from under, on and over the sea. Submarines and their adversaries, rather than soldiers fighting soldiers or planes fighting planes provided the best stories. And apropos a submarine, versatile, witty Winston Churchill fired the first shot of war humor to echo round the world...
...humor is simple and often notable. What the picture lacks in originality is made up for by exuberant prankishness. Unostentatious, "What a Life" does not fail to revive what is no more...
...still-warm drop of the very blood of history, a terrifying picture of how war is born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsdcker, a modest reflection of Sir Nevile's own shrewdness, courage and humor, and above all a never-to-be-forgotten firsthand sketch of Hitler the conqueror, screamer, wizard, fox, weird...
Espionage Agent (Warner) tries to do for spy hunters what G-Men did for the FBI in 1935. A timely, slapdash nerve-racker, it has none of the sophisticated humor with which, in such superbly organized spy thrillers as The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, smart British Director-Producer Alfred Hitchcock makes improbable situations plausible. Espionage Agent is filled with as many improbabilities as spies, and it is almost as hard to avoid spotting them...