Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doubtful as history, Salome is just as dubious as screen entertainment. A turgid multimillion-dollar blend of sex, spectacle and religion, it has been directed with a ponderous touch by William Dieterle. Chewing at the Technicolor scenery are Charles Laughton as a fat, licentious Herod, Judith Anderson as an evilly scheming Herodias, Alan Badel as a weirdly wild-eyed John the Baptist, and Stewart Granger as an intrepid Roman commander. Actress Hayworth does her best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl...
Come Back Little Sheba impresses you with the wisdom of one academy award and the complete fatuousness of another. Not only Shirley Booth's performance, but the film as a whole, is the year's best, Mr. DcMille's technicolor elephants not withstanding...
...when Polaroid Corp. got an order for 2,000,000 special eyeglasses for a world's fair exhibit, Polaroid's President Edwin Herbert Land predicted: "The lenses will be used [to view] a three-dimensional Technicolor movie . . . This new movie in Technicolor is believed to be a forerunner of unusual developments in the art of motion-picture production...
Despite its Technicolor parade of sun-burned, gaudily-dressed couples, Mississippi Gambler remains a drab romance. Tyrone Power's discreet gambling and puritan manner would put a benevolent granny to shame, while Piper Laurie's reception of his passion stirs some deep psychological trauma--if you care to interpolate from an occasional tear runs Without damage down her lovely face...
Spindly James Stewart gets his man and Janet Leigh to boot in M.G.M.'s brawling Technicolor western, The Naked Spur. He also meets a gold prospector, a cavalry officer, and a murderer. As if this was not enough t make him a bonfire western movie hero, Stewart more or less survives Indian attacks and avalanches...