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...Double. Danny Kaye wastes himself on a witless script built around a potentially funny idea, but some of Danny's routines-perhaps 20 minutes' worth-nearly make the film worthwhile...
...Double. The dull script almost throttles the grand old gitgatgittle out of its star, but for all its shortcomings the movie still has Danny Kaye...
...cell of the impregnable Szarhaza prison. Their efforts to fight off insanity from mind-obliterating drugs are compellingly chronicled. Their subsequent prison break is skillful skulduggery, handled in the finest tradition of cinema suspense. Director Phil (Hell to Eternity) Karlson and Star-Producer Widmark have managed to take a script that is awash in cliches, plunge it into an authentic setting, surround it with sound historical and technical data, and photograph it with an admirable tightness and edgy excitement...
...such, Kaye might be expected to drink like a general, inspect the troops, and woo the old man's beautiful wife (Dana Wynter). Instead, he just seems to be longing wistfully-with the audience-for the fun that used to be. The script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails...
...Facts of Life. The gentleman and lady named are prey to wanderlust; but their exploits are infinitely more humorous than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon are thrown in free...