Word: technicoloration
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British catalogues are quite complete, with listings of most minor works and rare, hard-to-sell large sets such as Purcell's great opera. "Dido and Aeneas." With less spent on advertising and technicolor album covers, the British customer gets more for his money in finer records. We can only hope that the American industry will once again set its sights on the target of better records and will turn towards quality when it has sated its appetite for huge profits. It would be refreshing again to have music for music's sake the rule in the platter business...
Henry V. Laurence Olivier's Technicolor production turns Shakespeare's play into a handsome, stirring film (TIME, April...
Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolor escape into the Old West, with Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward and Hoagy Carmichael ballads (TIME...
Smoky. The Will James story in Technicolor, starring Fred MacMurray and a beautiful black horse (TIME, July...
Connoisseurs of good tunes, however, and members of the Jeanne Crain cult, will find ample compensation for the vagaries of the story as well as for the uninteresting technicolor, the bad dialogue, and Corned Wilde's French accent. "All Through The Day" and "In Love In Vain" Eave been popular for weeks now, and better yet is "Cinderella Sue," a number which Avon Lang makes worth the venerated price of admission. As for Miss Crain, she is as unaffected and pleasant as she is easy on the eyes, despite the uninspired company of such experienced Fox low standard bearers...