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Word: techni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the stereophonic cooing of CinemaScope's newer, wider Marilyn Monroe, How to Marry a Millionaire ends up just another routine Techni-color movie. Substituting torsos for originality, Hollywood has swelled the female form up to unprecedented size without attempting to increase the script's humor proportionately...

Author: By Harry S. Kane, | Title: How to Marry a Millionaire | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists). Director John Huston's Techni-colored version of C. S. Forester's novel about a prissy spinster and a gin-swilling skipper; with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CHOICE FOR 1952 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Royal Wedding (MGM) illustrates what is wrong with most splashy Techni-colored cinemusicals-and how entertaining they can sometimes be in spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Kelly, who usually plays dancing roles in techni-color musicals, does surprisingly well as the protagonist who vows to avenge his father's murder. J. Carroll Naish, who plays the police inspector who never forgets a face, is not particularly memorable himself. In a moving speech in criminal court, however, he presents the moral of the movie: immigrants must be made to understand that in a democracy the police protect and help the people rather than oppress them...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

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