Word: technicoloration
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...gangster movies of the thirties and forties didn't need Technicolor bloodbaths to draw audiences. They were thrilling melodramas, gripping in their own right. In Dillinger, all we see are static moments in time without a sense of cause-and-effect. The bloody episodes are strung together with little continuity, merely reaffirming the adage that crime doesn't pay. Life is continually lost to no avail. The gangsters never even seem to have a chance to spend their money. How can we glorify Dillinger? He seems no more than a crook...
This kind of glib trendiness sloppily obscures both the origins of student rebellion here and the changes it has undergone in the past year. The very real events which quickened the anger of students--most notably the war in Indochina--are purposely forgotten by the technicolor pictures, the catchy, cute Timese, the mock attempt to mix levity and analysis. The vapid generalization and the smug clichevie for supremacy, and the product passes for hard-won analysis...
...same time he is an excellent writer--outrageously imaginative, hilariously funny, refreshingly honest and strangely accurate. He can make Armageddon fascinating, and even his most psychotic visions are driven by a tough, even slightly old-fashioned sensibility--somehow we sense a practical aptitude for survival in his crazed, technicolor world of fear and loathing. What is rather disconcerting about the manic charm of his apocalyptic perception is that the line between reality and his hallucinatory interpretation of it is getting thinner every...
...Knew Too Much. Because Hitchcock also directed a Technicolor remake of this classic (in Hollywood in 1955), the original is too seldom shown. This marvelous suspense tale, starring Peter Lorre, will be shown at the Welles, Sat. and Sun. at 2:00 only...
...attempts to teach it to the ardent young Cleopatra, who's not very interested in him otherwise. In so doing, he loses part of his army, but ultimately saves his neck. Gabriel Pascal produced and directed the film, which is photographed by four top British cameramen in florid Technicolor; Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains ham it up nicely as the title characters...