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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brand of sultriness which is to drive men mad. Miss Dandridge seems a little relenting for this demoniac task but her equipage is more than adequate. Harry Bellafonte, as Joe--nee Don Jose--relies too much on eye-popping and nerve-straining, emotional displays which the Cinema-Scopic screen shoves into the realm of the ludicrous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carmen Jones | 12/7/1954 | See Source »

Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe, and Pearl Bailey hoarsing around in the wide-screen wings (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...well as escapist entertainment. Desiree does neither, though it had all the potentialities: a cast of true actors, a sensitive script writer, and a factual basis in one of history's more romantic escapades. Its great flaw stems from the fact that it was filmed in a wide-screen process by a director who was apparently ignorant or stubborn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Desiree | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

When one considers the delicate balance of war and love in Olivier's Henry and the use he could have made of the wide-screen process in the Agincourt sequence, the waste in Desiree becomes apparent. The Napoleonic Wars are depicted by a faked-up melange of tricolors and flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Desiree | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...popular form of entertainment was the "living tableau" in which luxuriously-costumed people stood stock-still in the midst of lavish sets, portraying famous paintings or moments in history. I am afraid that Twentieth-Century Fox has produced the greatest living tableau of all, complete on a wide screen. MICHAEL J. HALBERSTAM...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Desiree | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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