Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is like a silly but lovable old friend who suddenly turns up after long absence with an expensive new wardrobe and a novel line of chatter. A lavish Technicolor production, and deadpan acting by the principal players, give the nostalgic old fable a simpleminded freshness and charm...
When Hollywood bites off a chunk like this and fills in with technicolor, things usually get very heady and cloying; the British (take another look at "On Approval") maintain a carefree buoyancy which aims at entertainment instead on Academy Awards...
...famed cartoons, Blimp acts out in black & white, by one class and political reflex after another, the whole tragicomic history of a special kind of British stupidity. The screen's version of Blimp, in rosy Technicolor, is not a Low specimen of humanity at all, but one long apologia for the better side of the Low character. Watching on the screen how the old man got that way, you would never suspect that the Colonel and his kind had anything to do with bringing on the Second World War. Even insofar as Blimp is shown to be old-fashioned...
Shapely senoritas, south-of-the-borderish tunes that send you away humming, and easy-on-the-eyes technicolor partly atone for incoherent plot and questionable symbolism in Walt Disney's current full-length animated feature, "The Three Caballeros," but the-final product falls short of the usual Disney standard...
Roddy McDowall, some very appealing horses, and skillful, if sometimes over-intense, technicolor have been thrown together in a game attempt to make "Thunderhead" palatable entertainment, but even Hollywood has no antidote for poor writing, miscasting, and haphazard direction. While horse fanciers and McDowall enthusiasts may thrill to "Thunderhead," the more critical will probably--and properly--consider it a mass of mistakes...