I loved the movie.
But, when I bought it at the 99 cents store, it was in a boxed set with That Uncertain Feeling and advertised as Comedy Noir.
Was there a different view of comedy in the 40's and 50's? It is different than our current comedies.
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John Huston sitting around BS'ing with Bogart, Truman Capote, Peter Viertel, John Woolf, Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre -- of course its a comedy.
shareOf course it's a comedy. It's a satire of the "heist thriller" type of movie where a group of criminals is after some McGuffin or another. It's one of the earliest movies I can think of that's so deliberately silly within the context of a heist/espionage type framework.
shareI wouldn't have thought that this could be described as noir albeit the description given was Comedy Noir. I don't think that it imitates or spoofs noir.
As much as I like offbeat stuff some of the humour in this falls flat for me. I think that humour in this is too individualistic to fit into a view of what comedy was really like in the 1950s generally.