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...magnificent climactic sequences of fighting at Midway and Okinawa, Moviemakers Wald and Daves combed through some 2½ million feet of U.S. Navy combat film. The results-in both black & white and Technicolor-are breathtaking. Some of the shots, which moviegoers will remember from wartime newsreels-of planes toppling across a flight deck like gasoline torches and of Kamikazes dissolving into smoke and matchwood 100 yards from the carrier's bridge-have the effect of recurring nightmares. Equally effective, except for the muttering background music, are the crowded shots of a carrier's communications room, the intricate, knotted...
Under Capricorn (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) puts Ingrid Bergman to work under one of the heaviest handicaps of her career. At best, the story is a florid historical romance; at its worst it is little better than hysterical drugstore fiction. Even tricked out with Technicolor and the skillfully elegant direction of Alfred Hitchcock, if remains a tedious and dispiriting yarn...
...first wife Natalie, now contesting their divorce, still gets screen credit, under her contract, as adviser on all Technicolor pictures...
Married. Dr. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 67, co-developer and financial brainpower of flourishing Technicolor, Inc. (1948 net profit, $1,775,834); and Eleanore ("Glorify Yourself") King, 38, syndicated columnist for King Features; both* for the second time; in Los Angeles...
Apart from such slippery stunts of cinemagic, Jolson Sings Again is a thumping good musical, handsomely mounted in Technicolor and zestfully played by a talented cast. The trouble is, it may launch a new and frighteningly inconclusive kind of serial. Hollywood gagsters have suggested that, 20 years hence, Columbia might do a musical entitled The Larry Parks Story, showing a young juvenile portraying Parks portraying Jolson...