Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arabian Nights (Universal) would be just another oldtime sheik picture but for 1) sleek Maria Montez, 2) Technicolor. The new year will be Technicolor's year, and in Technicolor Miss Montez will help make it happy...
Sophisticated Producer Walter Wanger has used Technicolor to create a fabulous spectacle, but he does not take his work too seriously. The tale pokes fun at itself and slyly cuckolds the Hays office. In Nights there is a tubby old boy who claims to have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does...
...picture is full of fire, galloping steeds and sword play-most of the playing by copper-torsoed Jon Hall, who plays Haroun-Al-Raschid to Miss Montez' Sherazade. But that is not all. The picture is, besides, an unusually effective Technicolor job. Best shots: the play of sunlight and shadow across the rich bronze desert sands...
...Technicolor movies of the U. S. Mountain Troops will be shown tomorrow night at the Cadet Armory in Boston at 8:15 o'clock. "Ski Patrol" shows action shots of the ace Army schussers in training at Camp Hale, Colorado, and this showing is sponsored by the First Motor Squadron of the State Guard. Tickets can be obtained at the Coop or the door...
Springtime in the Rockies (20th Century-Fox) ends with a song called Pan-Americana Jubilee and attempts to be just that by whipping together 1) Latin America (Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda and her band), 2) the U.S. (Betty Grable, John Payne, Harry James and his band), 3) Canada (large Technicolor hunks of Lake Louise, where the action takes place). The addition of an Eskimo and a penguin would have made the show still more hemispheric in scope, but Springtime in the Rockies, though it had its moments, is something...