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...Amber stepping, scene after scene had to be chopped out. These gaps have been plugged with some of the loudest cinemusic ever soundtracked-obviously in hopes that audiences literally will not be able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...cast really is a nonessential, for the players seem to have been selected more for physical appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

Life With Father. A stolid but efficient Technicolor version of the stage hit, with William Powell and Irene Dunne (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...second half of the picture, Edgar Bergen and dummies, in Technicolor, tell a little girl (Luana Patten) a cartooned variant of the Jack & the Beanstalk story. Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy, after a first-rate sequence as starving peasants, are lifted into the sky by a magic plant. There they meet Willie the Giant, outwit him (no hard job), and rescue a captive heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Cinema, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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