Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Disney hired him to teach drawing and composition in the training school on the Disney lot, soon promoted him to the job of color coordinator. His main job: matching Technicolor reproductions with original colored sketches made by other Disney artists. When Disney went to work on his artistically ambitious Fantasia, Phil Dike made sketches for Toccata & Fugue, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria...
Superbly filmed (in Technicolor) by Vienna-born Director Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott...
With appropriate complications, the story meanders on to its predestined end, with the help of a suicide, a hunting accident, a hidden cache of Confederate dollars, a gallant gesture by Yankee Williams. Tedious at times, Virginia at its worst is made bearable by luscious Technicolor shots of Madeleine Carroll and Virginia's red-clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give...
...Western Union" is an all-round admirable job, what with fine direction, a surprising minimum of Hollywood cliches, and the best technicolor to date. Perhaps February is somewhat early for predictions, but you'll be betting on a sure thing if you spot the picture as one of the ten best...
...short end of the foreign exchange again. In contrast to the prim cold beauty of the blonde nurse, Paulette Goddard plays a passionate halfbreed who nearly loses the Northwest for the Union Jack by tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than the Redskins, a little bolder than the Queen's bravest, and occasionally almost as bare as the northern crags. Texan Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show...