Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandits, J. Carroll Naish does a fine eye-rolling caricature of the stock "Mexican general." He is greased-up, bulb-nosed, and hidden by eyebrows and mustache heavy enough to make a hair shirt. The dancers (Ricardo Montalban, Sono Osato, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse) are easy to watch. The Technicolor makes the white horses and blue skies look wonderful, and most of the actors feverish...
Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a big, expensive, earnest retelling of a great story. Technicolor (TIME...
Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a big, expensive, earnest retelling of a great story. Technicolor (TIME...
...emphasize Miss Grable's mediocre dancing with his own slick routines. The supporting cast of June Havoc, Jack Oakie, and James Gleason couldn't be any better. Gag specialists have written a few high-voltage boffs into the script and the whole thing is packaged in some real nice technicolor. These are the merits. In spots they give the picture color and vitality. Where it falls horribly flat is in the story and in the overburden placed on the capabilities of the principle actors...
Another reserved-seat show is the fine English technicolor film, "The Red Shoes" which includes some of the longest ballet sequences ever shot. Finally, for the humorists, are "Miss Tatlock's Millions" as zany as it sounds and Danny Kaye's "A Song is Born"--all about jazz, with Kaye clowning as usual, and Virginia Mayo looking beautiful. Of course there's always the Old Howard...