Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astaire's dancing, Jane Powell's charm, and the Technicolor pageantry of London during Elizabeth's wedding more than compensate for a weak plot. As musicals go, "Royal Wedding" is good light-hearted entertainment...
Bird of Paradise (20th Century-Fox] splurges Technicolor, lush Hawaiian scenery and anthropological detail on the job of salvaging a 1912 play (and 1932 movie) about ill-starred love in Polynesia. The result is eye-filling and sometimes interesting. But quaint Hollywood customs get in the way of the South Seas folklore...
King Solomon's Mines. Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and some excellent Technicolor shots of African animals and vistas (TIME...
King Solomon's Mines. The plot (with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger) is easy to see through, but the Technicolor shots of African animals and vistas are well worth looking at (TIME...
...tastefully avoided. It miscasts its parson (juvenile William Lundigan) and his loyal wife (sexy Susan Hayward), sugarcoats the characterization of its village atheist (ably played by Alexander Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband. I had ceased to care how I looked...