"Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship"-- Choice ; "Just about anything with film historian and media writer Wes D. Gehring's name on it will be of quality."-- Cinema Retro ; "He explores, in detail, a dozen of the classic movies of the era. It's a fascinating study"-- Pop Culture Classics ; "a fresh and fascinating inside into screen comedies of the 1950s.Gehring expertly covers an even dozen of the decade's most significant comedy films."-- Yes!Weekly ; "Wes D. Gehring is a prolific author and film historian with an expertise in screen comedy. Thus, a book on movie comedians of the fifties would be especially significant coming from someone with this frame of reference and accomplishment.

Gehring carefully and insightfully examines all of the movies and spotlights their connection, their importance, and their contiuned impact. One of the most interesting film books of the year"-- jlneibaur-writer .