Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest and a Communist leader; and a love story, Two Cents Worth of Hope, which shared first prize at the Cannes Film Festival and stars 15-year-old Maria Fiore in her first picture. The bill may be topped by the most ambitious ($1,000,000) and first Technicolor movie Italy has yet made: The Golden Coach, directed by France's Jean (The River) Renoir, and starring Anna Magnani...
Where's Charley? (Warner) adds tunes, Technicolor and limber-legged Ray Bolger to that durable old 1892 romp, Charley's Aunt, to make a merry cinemusical. As Oxford Undergraduate Charley,* Bolger sings & dances in his ingratiatingly gawky style. And to get himself and his pal out of a romantic dilemma, he also impersonates Dona Lucia d'Alvadorez, his rich aunt from Brazil, "where all the nuts come from." Decked out in a long black dress and a red wig, "with a face like a hatchet, a voice like a duck and a figure to match," Bolger makes...
California Conquest (Columbia). Between 1825 and 1841, Mexico-ruled California was torn by internal strife, and Russia, France, England and the U.S. were trying to take over the territory. Dramatizing this little-known phase of history, California Conquest adds a dash of Technicolor and several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya...
...African Queen. A prissy spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolor version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...Narrow Margin proves what purists have been shouting for a long time--movies should move more and talk less. It also proves that it doesn't take technicolor, a million dollars, and an array of extras to make a picture that will sell. It only takes a good director and a smart editor...