Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prisoner of Zenda (MGM) is the first time in Technicolor, but the fourth time on film, for Anthony Hope's durable 1894 Ruritanian romance. The Ruritania in this edition is as magnificent a mythical kingdom as M-G-M money can buy-outsize castles, royal hunting lodges and gargantuan coronation balls...
...last year's Festival of Britain, enlists many of the outstanding names in British films. It has some 70 stars, from Michael Redgrave to Emlyn Williams, in bit roles. It was produced by Ronald (Great Expectations') Neame, directed by John (Seven Days to Noon) Boulting, photographed in Technicolor by Jack (Red Shoes) Cardiff, and adapted by Eric Ambler from Ray Allister's Friese-Greene, Close-Up of an Inventor. The result is a cinebiography that is more of a blurred long shot than a clear closeup...
...Hollywood, Mary Pickford, 59, sadly announced that she has withdrawn from a projected movie-her first in 20 years. "Since the decision not to make Circle of Fire in Technicolor," she wrote Producer Stanley Kramer, "I have been very unhappy and very much disturbed. I do feel that after so long an absence from the screen, my return should not be in black & white...
Still active Benny Fields and his now-retired wife, who served as technical advisers on Somebody Loves Me, contend that the picture is "99% true." As written and played on the screen, their story comes out as the sort of life they might have led if Technicolor cameras had been looking...
...principals of The Quiet Man may not lure travelers to Ireland, but the scenery certainly will. The Technicolor countryside ought to make any tourist skip the Loire and travel west from Southampton instead...