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Song of India (Columbia) offers a sepia-tinted view of Sabu, onetime Elephant Boy, presiding over a whole jungleful of exotic fauna &. flora. He is especially fond of tigers, which he fondles like outsize tabby cats. He is on intimate terms with all the other jungle beasts and is determined to protect them from the wholesale poachings of a progressive Indian prince (Turhan Bey) in search...
...describe this movie's gargantuan appetite for adventure. In 90 minutes it wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...
Three years ago, when nightspot managers around the U.S. were hiring a little-known Negro singer named Billy Eckstine, they tagged him with such labels as "The Sepia Sinatra" and "The Bronze Balladeer" to help lure customers in. Some were lured, and many of them began buying Billy's M-G-M records. By last year, after his Fool that I Am had sold around 200,000, Billy, a big, well-set-up (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) boy with flashing white teeth, had begun to look like a top crooner in his own right...
...about as exciting as a plate of boiled haddock. Yet the story's very quietness is rather pleasant. All the outdoor shots were made in Maine, and are much better than average to look at; but for some strange reason the crisp camera work is steeped in sepia so rich that the whole world looks like strong tea. There is competent character acting by Anne Revere, Ed Begley and Cesar Romero...
...mock-ups of 17th Century garrets, inns and windmills are engagingly naive, and often drafty enough to send a chill through a steam-heated audience. The camera seems to eye everything with a cavalier detachment, and the sepia film gives the illusion that everything is seen through a blear of centuries...