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Beau Brummell (MGM) is a $3,000,000 spare-no-expense attempt, egregiously cast, costumed and colored (in Eastman Color and Technicolor, too), to take the moviegoer on an elaborate tear through 18th century England. Censorship being what it is, the spectator generally has to take the vulgar intention for the vicious performance: he sees the ornate Regency sofa, but not what happened on it. Art Director Alfred Junge and Costume Designer Elizabeth Haffenden are in fact the real hero and heroine of this picture. The script (based on the old Clyde Fitch-Richard Mansfield heart-tugger that had four...
Brigadoon (MGM) on the Broadway stage was a wee Scots village that time forgot. On the CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...
...Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Four second prize winners: On the Waterfront (U.S.), The Street (Italy), The Seven Samurai and Functionary Sun-sho (both Japan). Best actor: France's Jean Gabin (for his work in L'Air de Paris and Touchez Pas au Grisbi). "Special" prize: MGM's Executive Suite. On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, walked off with two additional prizes: one from the Italian Motion Picture Journalists Association, the other from the International Catholic Film Office...
...Europe, MGM's Executive Suite was being billed by any other name, largely because the American meaning of the title has no exact equivalent in any European language. Translated examples: in France, The Tower of the Ambitious Ones; in Holland, The Top Man; in Sweden, A Chair Is Vacant; in Italy, Thirst for Power; in Germany, The Schemers...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (MGM) is a lighthearted musical version of The Rape of the Sabine Women. It is also the liltingest bit of tunesome lollygagging to hit the screen since the same studio brought forth An American in Paris...