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Camp officials denied that the WACs were involved in the escape plot. Husky German prisoners who volunteer to do maintenance work at the skyhigh, isolated training center, go around stripped to the waists, love to inflate their chests, flex their muscles, and kid with the WACs. In the opinion of Camp Hale's baffled officials the susceptible WACs were guilty, at worst, of springtime indiscretion...
Private Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) is typical of the half-grown, brash, good-natured boys whom the vast drafts of World War II have passed between the Army's shaping rollers. How to standardize such a kid into a soldier so disturbs Private Hargrove's captain that after one look at him the officer thinks of transferring to the Navy. In the long run Hargrove and his equally unmilitary comrades learn their trade. But the film devotes most of its time to the comic aspects of their training (mostly polishing garbage cans) and their vestigial private life...
...responsible for this sort of eat-your-cheesecake-and-kid-it-too is Gagster Don Hartman, who put some of the trickiest comic curves into the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar and Morocco. The whole picture is easy, handsome, unabashed. It was a fantastic idea to festoon a completely unreal version of World War II around Comedian Danny Kaye. The result: one of the few pictures which seem to have been made for a huge audience of soldiers overseas, avid for such funny fare. (By month's end they will be seeing...
...love me. Besides, we love you fellows very much, and tomorrow we are going to show you how much we love you by laying a couple of eggs in your backyard." The Germans finally gave up: the last straw was when Baruch, who speaks seven languages fluently, began to kid them in Yiddish...
Honest Injun, it's about time somebody told him that these situation comedies without situation and without comedy are getting on audiences' nerves. Deanna Durban is a very nice kid who once had a very beautiful soprano voice, but the voice has either lost some of its touch or Deanna has just become very boring. At any rate, she isn't cute. And, to help matters, she kisses like Shirley Temple...