Word: ruritanians
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...Prisoner of Zenda (MGM) is the first time in Technicolor, but the fourth time on film, for Anthony Hope's durable 1894 Ruritanian romance. The Ruritania in this edition is as magnificent a mythical kingdom as M-G-M money can buy-outsize castles, royal hunting lodges and gargantuan coronation balls...
...going to have a baby, a sentimental old Italian wants his wife to have one, and the village needs one more inhabitant to graduate into a town. Though Buttrio Square is the center-of-life in an Italian community, it looks like the market place of a dozen Ruritanian capitals. Up goes the curtain, and out pop youths and maidens committing the usual merry-month-of-Mayhem. Thereafter, there is much strenuous dancing, deplorable banter, and songs with such titles as Let's Make It Forever and You're Mine, All Mine...
...second, Strictly Dishonorable, could introduce him to the screen (TIME, July 23). Now moviegoers can see why. The film shackles Pinza and Lana Turner to the story of an incognito King's fling with a nightclub cutie from the U.S.-a situation enfeebled by long service in Ruritanian farce and operetta. Basso Pinza sings three numbers predictably well; Actress Turner sings a couple predictably. But only the Technicolor looks good in Mr. Imperium...
...snobbishness of the man (Carl Benton Reid) who was both its chief patron and the father of the girl (Ann Blyth) he loved. It is a story full of the kind of quaint dialect which, designed to sound like a literal English translation of Italian, sounds only like pure Ruritanian...
...this, along with a highly vocalized romance between Kosciuszko and a Polish girl (Marta Eggerth), is drenched in thicker-than-usual musicomedy mulligatawny. Crowds of peasants, more Ruritanian than Polish, whirl about with almost frightening energy; court balls are halted by the alarums of war; battlefields, bathed in lurid crimson light, are agitated by frantic flag-waving ballets...