Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typhoon (Paramount) illustrates in garish Technicolor the peril to a besotted beachcomber (Robert Preston) of stranding on a Polynesian isle with an uninhibited child of nature (Dorothy Lamour...
...weak characters to slow the pace. Roland Young brings horn-rimmed Caspar Milquetoast to life as he meekly submits to buxom Bostonian Ethel Marder--who acts a fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...
...this purpose Irene was dug out of the musicomedy archives of 1919, tuned down with less music, toned up with more comedy, glorified midway with a sudden blob of Technicolor for the Alice Blue Gown song sequences, jazzed toward the end when a Harlem revue swings the same song...
With the benefit of low grade B dialogue and the technicolor of five years ago, this attempt might have been entertaining, but even these meagre requirements have not been met with the result that the picture has all the zip of a three-day-old glass of beer...
...featureStar Dust, with sixteen year old Linda Darnell, differs only in that it is not in technicolor...