My Pirate Joke Begins with "Yar"
High Society (1956)
directed by Charles Walters
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
When Calvin and Hobbes was still in newspapers, there was a comic swap one Sunday among some of the most popular strips in syndication. I don't remember the specifics, but try to imagine Bil Keane of The Family Circus filling in for Gary Larson. High Society is like Marmaduke playing Hobbes. Since so much of apparent "journeyman" John Patrick's screenplay is lifted verbatim from The Philadelphia Story, one can't help but see the ghosts of Kate, Jim, and Cary just behind the shoulders of Grace, Frank, and Bing. The changes the script does make (Bing is a musician instead of an alcoholic, Frank makes his love for Liz Embrie explicit in the wedding scene) play like pablum, and only Louis Armstrong as the Greek bard in a straw boater sparks anything like the candle of creation.
directed by Charles Walters
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
When Calvin and Hobbes was still in newspapers, there was a comic swap one Sunday among some of the most popular strips in syndication. I don't remember the specifics, but try to imagine Bil Keane of The Family Circus filling in for Gary Larson. High Society is like Marmaduke playing Hobbes. Since so much of apparent "journeyman" John Patrick's screenplay is lifted verbatim from The Philadelphia Story, one can't help but see the ghosts of Kate, Jim, and Cary just behind the shoulders of Grace, Frank, and Bing. The changes the script does make (Bing is a musician instead of an alcoholic, Frank makes his love for Liz Embrie explicit in the wedding scene) play like pablum, and only Louis Armstrong as the Greek bard in a straw boater sparks anything like the candle of creation.
posted by NPK at 9:12 AM
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