Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dottie Lamour is at it again, fellows, sarong and all, making love to no less than two scantily clad Polynesians. This time technicolor adds its bit and helps to make the movie better than the rest of Dottie's gone-native series. Other factors that raise this above the ordinary are: a better than average story of tropic love, hate, and retribution; a good cast of supporting actors, especially Lynne Overman; and a very realistic sequence of the eruption of a volcano, fully as terrifying as the eruption in Fantasia's "Rites of Spring...
...title of "This Woman Is Mine" fool you. It isn't the passionate love-me-or-I-die flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point...
...over-enthusiastic C.A.A. students may be interested in the flying sequences which are shown in technicolor--even this ground hugger was a little interested the first two times that the air force went through its entire repertoire. The show, in short, is a pictorial cliche aimed at the 14-year-old mind and landing...
...flight surgeons. Most of it was shot at the Naval Air Station at San Diego. Some of it-especially the scenes aboard the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Saratoga-is almost straight documentary. All of it is an extravagant display of millions of dollars worth of armament gaily photographed in Technicolor...
...typical world-cruise crowd-"schoolteachers and retired white-collar workers and chain-store sell-outs ... [their] ideas pure Technicolor." There were also remittance-men, wanderers and drunks: "nice people . . . rich in leisure, meditation and gamy breaths" (see cut, p. 91; the drawings are Longstreet's). There was a fine old fellow whom he calls Proust's Pal (he had known Marcel quite well) who talked old-fashioned purple epigrams about books, homosexuality and English cooking. There were also Pamela Cohn, who thought of joining the Catholic Church but passed it up on a chance to meet Aldous Huxley...