Films

FilmsThe Matchmaker, based on the Thorton Wilder Broadway smash inspired by an 1842 Viennese comedy taken from the John Oxenford original of 1835, is about the funniest, perkiest picture we've come on in years. While John Michael Hayes' screenplay carries over from the stage show every hoary slapstick device known to man – from scrambling into closets to transvestitism – the maneuvers are so spontaneously panicky that you don't mind one whit. The peppy and near perfect principals include Shirley...