Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight at 8:30 is a series of technicolor comedies keyhole-peeping into the lives of a husband-and-wife vaudeville team, a non-U family on London's seamier side, and a couple of young bon vivants broke in Southern France...
...seat-flattening length of 2 hr. 51 min.-plus a 15-minute intermission. They gave it the supercolossal screen of the Todd-AO process and twirled the volume knob on the stereophonic sound system until the chandeliers began to rattle. They gave it some of the smoothest Technicolor that has ever creamed a moviegoer's eyeballs; but then, gripped by the fear that all this would be too subtle, they decided to smear "mood" all over the big scenes by shooting them through filters. Result: too often the actors are tinted egg yellow, turtle green-and sometimes phosphorescent fuchsia...
...story is competently filmed in pretty Technicolor, and it is probably accurate from barnacles to binnacles, but it lingers too long over the details. The producers seem to have forgotten that in war pictures, as in true love, there is little to be said for long engagements...
Legend of the Lost (Batjac; United Artists) is filled with authentic Technicolor views of Libya, and packed with authentic Hollywood hokum. The movie stars Rossano Brazzi as a no-good do-gooder, Sophia Loren as a bad girl from Timbuktu, and John Wayne as the man who discovers something good about...
...lovable as a kitten and no more frightening. In two earlier filmings of Victor Hugo's romance, Lon Chaney (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939) took care to spook the audience out of its wits before building up sympathy for the. lovesick, crookbacked bell ringer. But the current Technicolor version (with a French supporting cast, dubbed-in English) introduces Notre Dame's resident troll tenderly stroking a pigeon on one of the cathedral's balustrades, and the film plays hearts-and-gargoyles...