I didn't have high hopes for The First Time (1952), despite my Tashlin mania: I'd tried to watch Marry Me Again (1953), his other marital comedy starring Robert Cummings (known in my household as "the Butcher of Strasburg" after his role in Anthony Mann's 1949 Reign of Terror), and found the gag-happy, sketch-comedy approach unsatisfactory within such a constrained domestic setting and with a straight actor instead of a comedian in the lead. And the jokes about shooting down "Japs" in the war are pretty...bad. As a result, I only put The First Time on for a minute to see what it was like...and then ended up watching the whole thing.
It's very funny, and Cummings, along with Barbara Hale, is really good in it. No, really.
It's also very interesting, and quite subversive at times...Tashlin often seems to favour a kind of masculinism, in a slightly tiresome "Fathers for Justice" way,...
It's very funny, and Cummings, along with Barbara Hale, is really good in it. No, really.
It's also very interesting, and quite subversive at times...Tashlin often seems to favour a kind of masculinism, in a slightly tiresome "Fathers for Justice" way,...
- 8/11/2011
- MUBI
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