Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and a whole flock of northern Gone-With-the-Winders plays at lukewarm epic-making at the Astor, to epic length. MGM spent millions...
...know," he said, "Eskimos are so dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said...
...Himalayas. Airborne, the camera looks down like Shiva on the glittering tremendum of eternal snows; waterborne, it hurls the watcher through a thrilling passage of some rapids on the Indus River. But when the travel stops and the story begins, the show turns out to be a quasi-Oriental epic with a superman for a hero. The superman: radio's Lowell Thomas, who just happens to be one of the founders of Cinerama Productions Corp...
...into this were-world has slouched a new sort of creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...
Band of Angels (Warner) is an epic that tries to convert the U.S. Civil War into a battle of the sexes. It is no better, no worse than Robert Penn Warren's best-selling novel (TIME. Aug. 22, 1955) in which the ante-bellum and wartime agonies of the South were portrayed as if the whole upheaval were a kind of apoplectic seizure under the magnolias...