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Finally, the appeal of the film is purely visual, a feast of costumes, color and cinquecento opulence as beautiful to contemplate as any masterpiece in facsimile. Though the drama up front often makes the mind boggle, Photography Director Leon Shamroy and a staff of design wizards have dwarfed it against backgrounds that fill the eye with Michelangelo's incomparable vision...
...Leon Shamroy's camera gives Amber a highly appetizing protective Technicoloration that dotes with equal affection on furniture and flesh, brazen sconce and brazen bust...
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...been very long and, at the same time, very poor. But Show Boat, which takes nearly two hours to unroll, is well worth the care which Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. bestowed upon it as his final picture before leaving Universal. Handsomely directed by James Whale, magnificently photographed by Leon Shamroy, it brings to the screen what has become a U. S. institution: Edna Ferber's story of 1926 which was the basis of the Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musicomedy of 1927 and an indifferent part-sound film in 1929. The latest cinema version, instead of following the Ferber...
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