Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the picture is easily the best job yet done on the infantry fighting of World War II. In Technicolor photography that lent itself to little intercutting of real combat footage, Director Lewis Milestone has staged his battle scenes with jarring realism and vigor. By borrowing the brilliant camera technique of his own 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front, he has filmed them with sweep, surprise and rhythm...
...musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists of the kind of music that audiences whistle on their way into...
...Frenchie" has most of the makings of an excellent shoot-'em-up Western: a good cast (Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lancaster), fine Technicolor photography, and appropriate background music which is played whenever somebody rides in or out of town. But the picture appears to move slowly since there are no real chases and only one gun duel...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr. and Stewart Granger (TIME...
Later he turned to mountain-climbing, wrote a book on mountaineering that ranks with the best on the subject. And his first novel, The White Tower, was good enough as straight adventure in the Swiss Alps to become a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in 1945, later a Technicolor thriller. Before setting out to write River, Author Ullman took a refresher trip to South America to make sure of his earlier impressions...