Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie is not great art, but it is great fun. Essentially it is one long, exciting, old-fashioned movie chase. Filmed in the Belgian Congo and Uganda by Director John Huston, it tells its adventure yarn in a blaze of Technicolor, fine wild scenery and action. While hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only...
...Tall Men is full of fighting men and soft, shapely women. It's also got some crisp dialogue, and it was filmed in Technicolor. It is no secret why some of us like this type of picture. Ten Tall Men is merely an excellent example of good, colorful escapism with very little reality or plot to confuse the moviegoer...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't in Technicolor, but with Charles Laughton carrying the title role as a hideously deformed bell-ringer, this picture doesn't even need a sound-track...
Hollywood, spurred by its success in luring moviegoers away from their TV sets, considered a new idea: take any old film story that has proved its box-office pull and i) reproduce it in gorgeous Technicolor, 2) throw in some songs and dances, and 3) make it look lavish, regardless of budget. Old favorites slated for the music and color treatment: Huckleberry Finn and Goodbye, Mr. Chips at MGM; Brother Rat and The Male Animal at Warner, What Price Glory? at 20th Century...
Bugles in the Afternoon (Warner) takes a Technicolor gallop across western prairies infested by Indians who can shoot straight only when they are not shooting at the hero. The indestructible hero is brooding Ray Milland, who has been drummed out of his regiment back east for running a saber into dastardly Hugh Marlowe. Re-enlisting at a frontier fort, he is soon squabbling with Marlowe again, this time over the affections of beauteous Helena Carter...