Word: technicoloration
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...scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Actor Flynn performs for everybody else. A head-thumping, sword-swishing, bow-twanging technicolor attempt to foreshorten the popular episodes of the Soo-year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring...
...resemblance to the public's conception of Mr. Clemens' hero. Although such old-timers as Walter Brennan and May Robson lend adult support, all of the minors are new to the camera and act with that unaffected naturalness that Norman Taurog's directing brings out. The picture is in Technicolor...
...incomparable Samuel Goldwyn dug deep into his plush, silken topper and drew out Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Adolph Menjou, The Ritz Brothers, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds, Helen Jepson, and the great Zorina. He mixed them all together, added a dash of technicolor, and even put his name in the title; and out of it all emerged "The Goldwyn Follies." Wandering in and out of Hollywood sets and hamburg stands, leaping from the insane antics of the Ritz brothers to the majestic beauty of "La Traviata," and combining jazz and the ballet in preposterous fashion, it dwarfs everything previously produced...
...Jungle Love (Paramount) is a penny thriller, featuring glistening Technicolor, toothy, slithering crocodiles and Dorothy Lamour. Untutored, enticing mistress of a tropical isle, Actress Lamour croons to stranded Airman Ray Milland in beguiling gibberish, learns in record time to sing about starlight and lovelight...
...Divorce of Lady X (Alexander Korda). A neat pick-me-up for jaded grownups. Producer Korda's first try in Technicolor is a saucy farce with three attractive attributes: 1) provocative Eurasian-looking Merle Oberon cutting the comic corners with all her curves and fast ones; 2) a top-flight British cast; 3) Technicolor. Aside from that used in animated cartoons, most Technicolor is a prettifying process that sets great store on being called "unobtrusive." Lady X's Technicolor is consciously as obtrusive as possible, jumped on production cost to $1,2000,000. When the scene opens...