Word: metrocolored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnelli plays his game of pseudo-sociological croquet with the careless good form of a man who does not have to worry about making his satiric points. He plays for the box-office score instead, working the sex angles and the big names and the "production values" -yum-yum Metrocolor, flossy furniture, slinky clothes-with the skill of a cold old pro. The comedy is kept on a fairly low commercial plane too. The funniest line concerns a retired pugilist. "Who is that man with no nose?" asks wife Bacall suspiciously. "Oh, he has a nose," says husband Peck defensively...
...Gogh's paintings were sought and photographed. The camera could not adequately show his thick daubs of paint, but it does capture his magnificent coloring, including the electric yellows with which he described a world he thought illuminated by the brilliant light of God and His sun. Cinemascope and Metrocolor are also superbly used to recreate the scenes of his paintings. They trace his life from the family home in Holland to Borinage coal district in Belgium, where he served as a minister, and finally to sun-swept Arles where, during one of his attacks, Van Gogh committed suicide...
...picture is based on Playwright Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play, The Women. The play was made into a picture in 1939, and audiences of that time enjoyed the satirical thrusts and hair-pulling matches. In this version, however, Producer Joe Pasternak has sugared everything up with pretty Metrocolor, with June Allyson, who plays the spirited heroine as a teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never...
Though the stars are the same and the playwright wrote the script himself, the movie has lost the play's subtlety and charm. Metrocolor, the wide screen, and a new ending don't add much to what is left of Tea and Sympathy...