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...another feeble attempt to duplicate the popularity of their stage show, "Hellzapoppin," by a cinema "extravaganza," Olsen and Johns on have once again wasted yards of valuable film. Unfortunately, the creators of "Crazy House" tried to toss a plot into the script, thereby only adding to the general confusion. Olsen and Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick...
Judging from script readings and rehearsals, Bill has done it again--a charming, moving fantasy expressing the Saroyon belief in the essential goodness of the ordinary man. It's another human comedy just like "The Time of Your Life," Love's Old Sweet Song," and "My Heart's In the Highlands...
Bridson spent three months banging about the U.S. before doing his first show: An Englishman Looks at Chicago. His half-hour script, presented by professional actors, was a notable job of interpreting a city known mainly to Englishmen for 1) gangsters, 2) rudeness. Wrote...
...Alaska Highway ("a highway that would stretch from Paris to Moscow") was covered by Bridson in a first-rate script that caught the U.S. idiom ("Boy, I never knew anything could be so cold. It must be about a thousand below"), the feel of the country ("Spring . . . the air's full of the sound of running water, the gurgle of streams and the chatter of rivers below the ice"), and the temper of the men who built it ("Eight miles a day-and only a thousand miles...
...fired for writing news stories about people he had not interviewed, he is intimately acquainted with some of his radio characters (they are among his mother's best Bloomington friends). He is an incorrigible practical joker. He once named all of NBC's vice presidents in his script as a gang of jailbirds, and is given to telling strangers that his handsome wife is three-quarters Eskimo, allergic to heat...