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Yolanda and the Thief (MGM) transforms a slender, wide-eyed little Ludwig Bemelmans fantasy into an overstuffed Technicolor musical. Full of candy-box surrealism and extravagant nonsense, the picture is wasteful in many ways, but most notably in its misuse of Fred Astaire's talents...
...Trunk contains plenty more: lush late '703 settings of exotic Old New Orleans and gaudy, naughty Saratoga. There is even a spectacular railway wreck and a skull-crushing pitched battle in the dark. Most surprising thing about Saratoga Trunk is that it is not in Technicolor. Also surprising: despite its tried-&-true formula and two-hour-plus running time, Saratoga Trunk is a glamorous double portion of consistently entertaining entertainment...
...Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
...have switched to the long-named chemicals which agricultural scientists call plant hormones (e.g., alpha-naphthalene-acetic-acid). Most plant hormones are still experimental and not in general use, but they are currently the biggest excitement in agricultural science. By all reports, they are working like Disney magic in Technicolor...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...