Word: cinemalbum
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...what is infantile and mawkish, but Producer Selznick (Gone With the Wind) likes to keep production under his thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded midriff, seem intolerably long. All in all, the Selznick thumb has rubbed the bloom...
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