Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made-$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome. The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
Across the Wide Missouri (MGM) boasts all the expansive paraphernalia of a painstaking Hollywood epic: vast stretches of the rugged Colorado outdoors, superbly photographed in Technicolor; a conscientious effort to show how trappers actually looked and lived in the Western wilderness of 1830; a big cast headed by Clark Gable in one of his manliest roles. Unfortunately, all the color and muscle is not enough to hide the script's severe case of dramatic anemia...
...Tickets to Broadway (RKO Radio) is a backstage musical that makes its only nod to the times by placing its song, dance and story routines in & around a television studio. Though the commercials are missing and Technicolor is floridly present, the film so well reflects the quality of current TV entertainment that moviegoers may feel their fingers itching for a dial...
...turning his attention to the Old Testament, say his publishers, Oursler "attempts no rationalization or modernization of the original text . . . nor does he supplement the narrative with his own explanations or interpretations." But the technicolor in which his prophets, priests and kings appear is a bit of an interpretation in itself. Excerpts...
Fantasia, Walt Disney's three Academy Award winner, is a great technicolor fable at the Kenmore...