Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tomorrow." Electronically controlled cabinets slide down to easy reach with a wave of the hand, and cabinet doors pop open by light pressure on the front panel. A new appliance provides a choice of cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...
...Command (Warner) proves that the new CinemaScope technique has added to the old-fashioned western no more than a few extra Indians to fill out the wide open spaces on the screen. The blue-coats are as usual trying to get a wagon train past the redskins, and as usual they do, but only after the routine game of ring-around-a-rosy, with many an Indian biting the dust. The action is somewhat confused in this one by a chicken-pox epidemic that serves little purpose except to permit the audience and the hero (Guy Madison) to peek down...
...comedy situation is worked for all the laughs it's worth by Scripter Garson Kanin and Director George Cukor. It gets more from the faultlessly schooled comedy of Actress Holliday and a fresh, sharply timed performance by Actor Lemmon, making his screen debut...
...Should Happen to You, Judy plays, for the fourth time in a row, essentially the same poor man's Pygmalion that won her an Oscar two years ago for the screen version of her 1946 Broadway hit, Born Yesterday. Practice has made her almost perfect in the part. She seems an incarnation of the big-city blonde who is so dumb that she doesn't even know she's beautiful...
...well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And the derring-duo, Taylor and Actress Blyth, seem, in their big storm scene, while all the screen rocks wildly, as beautiful, as smilingly unperturbed and as lifeless as a manikin couple in a sporting-goods-store window...