Word: skookum
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Technicolor makes the landscapes of the U.S. Northwest look as handsome and healthy as skookum apples. It also makes fire look very fiery while the sound of rushing flames suggests the rumpling of tons of cellophane. So long as The Forest Rangers sticks to these simple properties, and to firefighting methods, the picture is gaudy, noisy, unsafe and sane. But all too soon Cinemactress Goddard falls off a horse and flattens Cinemactor MacMurray, who immediately feels (or so he says) "like I had swallowed a comet." While he digests it, which takes a long time, fires are in abeyance...
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