Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasantest things about the movie is the music, done by Clinton Elliott. Like the camera-work, it is leisurely, following the pace of the creatures. Some themes, like the sea horse's, are really amusing. Though the commentary is occasionally too chatty, it is informative without being ostentatiously so. Thanks to the good taste and restraint of Producer Butterfield and his assistants Secrets of the Reef is a fine movie about...
...elements in the timeless tradition of boudoir intrigue are thrown into Mille. Gobette at a pace that makes it the epitome of bubbling French farces. It overflows with bedrooms, undressing, disguised identity, and incorruptible officials of the French government. All it needs is a king...
...Trevor Gardner, longtime Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
...something the film colony often claims but seldom achieves: an epic. And this epic was achieved by an act of singular artistic courage. At the serious risk of losing the customer's interest-and with it the $5,000.000 production cost of the picture -Director Stevens slowed the pace of his story down to a deep-Texas drawl. With a more than Homeric lentor. almost as though it were inching along in one of those venerable jalopies that still wheeze across the hot pink flats between El Paso and San Antonio, the camera moves for almost 3½ hours...
...while, the pace is distinctly depressing; nothing seems to happen. And then slowly the spectator gets the big idea of this picture; slowly he realizes that he is not supposed to be watching a story. even though in its own sweet time the picture tells a pretty good story. He is supposed to be watching life...