Word: cinerama
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...problem with Cinerama is that the movie is invariably anticlimactic after the unveiling of the screen. You sit in the immense red-upholstered theatre listening to a six-track stereophonic overture, surrounded by a 160 degree are of curtain. The overture fades, the lights dim, and as the projectors start to roll, the red curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curving until it begins...
...people are never satisfied. Most of the audience at the Cinerama Theatre would have felt cheated had the manager stepped to the front of the house and said that their $3.00 tickets only entitled them to see the unveiling of a formidable white rectangle. They came to see a movie. Instead they were given Grand Prix...
...point is clear: if, for reason or reasons unknown, you find yourself in the Cinerama Theatre one night, stick around for the opening of the curtain and then leave fast. As interesting, even amusing, storytelling, Grand Prix is just this side of wretched; as film-making, Grand Prix is (no pun intended) the pits...
KHARTOUM. Charlton Heston pulls on still another heroic hat as British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon, with Laurence Olivier as the Moslem, Mahdi, in a Cinerama version of the bitter 317-day siege of Khartoum...
KHARTOUM. Cinerama recaptures the spectacular drama of the 1884 siege of Khartoum, where British General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) managed to withstand the Moslem assaults led by the Mahdi (Laurence Olivier) for 317 days before dying in one of history's more fascinating lost causes...