Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever made by a British company, is also the British cinema industry's first major investigation of a subject which has often interested Hollywood: empire building in the north of India. Largely made on location near Chitral, Drums contains some of the most dazzling sequences ever recorded in Technicolor, but Director Zoltan Korda-wiser than many of his U. S. colleagues when confronted with this medium for the first time-refused to let it get out of hand. Consequently, his picture marches with considerably more vigor than anything his brother Alexander Korda's London Film Productions has made...
...University is having review day today, transporting grads back to their childhood with Valentino's "Son of the Shiek." "Roberts" with Dunne, Astaire and Rogers is on the same bill. Tomorrow brings "Divorce of Lady X," a sophisticated English comedy, with Merle Oberon very attractive in Technicolor. And it will be worth sitting through half of "College Swing" to see Martha Raye, with a French accent, singing "Howja Like to Love...
...Robin Hood" is not an epic, despite the excellent filming by Technicolor; it is not a classic, for its departs too much from the classical legends; it is a most entertaining melodrama with a proper mixture of suspense, comedy, and romance...
...scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring...
...resemblance to the public's conception of Mr. Clemens' hero. Although such old-timers as Walter Brennan and May Robson lend adult support, all of the minors are new to the camera and act with that unaffected naturalness that Norman Taurog's directing brings out. The picture is in Technicolor...