Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skelton pantomimes help keep the film amusing while enough bathing beauties for a dozen aquacades parade across the celluloid. Not to be outdone by competitors, MGM has called on Xavier Cugat and Harry James to supply the music, which is by far the best part of the movie...
...chief of State Police asked the questions which were on thousands of other lips. How did the fire start? Eyewitnesses swore the blaze first smouldered at the bottom of the tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...
Unlike the pseudo GI celluloid tripe dished out by Abbott and Costollo. "Hargrove" is an easy to look at picture of a home town rookie who can't get "on the ball" but who has enough natural intelligence to add four and four and get more than a headache. Slapstick is present, of course, but is held to a minimum as poor Hargrove progresses from cleaning garbage cans at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to cleaning garbage cans aboard a convey bound for action...
...qualities by which the California celluloid kings have redeemed themselves in this presentation, is the scrupulous regard for the accuracy of local color. All of the characters are really French, and the settings fit the average American's conception of French life. The irking tendency of Hollywood producers to create all sorts of inconsistencies of time and place has been meticulously avoided...
What we want out here are musicals, preferably in prewar settings, because it gripes us no end to see some dashing young bum in an Army uniform surrounded by beauteous blondes, fighting the battle of "Celluloid...