Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie is advertised as featuring the chorus, orchestra, and ballet of the Bolshoi Opera Theatre, the ballet seems to have disappeared from this version. But Moussorgsky's music, drawn mostly from Russian folk songs, is exciting and plentiful. The color, too, is excellent--not like the red and blue "technicolor" of older Russian films. There is another Soviet film on the bill, an explication de peinture called "The Sistine Madonna," which, fortunately, is not long...
...Technicolor, not VistaVision can conceal the overripe condition of the subject; and the silly new script ("Your rapid maneuvers leave me breathless indeed"), along with a down-the-same-old-rut production, is ill-calculated to restore life. The principals, Kathryn Grayson and a European tenor called Oreste, sing about as well as most people do in the movies, though at times the audience may find itself wishing that Oreste, who can holler pretty loud when he's a mind to, had two names and only one lung...
...film, as a film, is one of the industry's best. Visually, it could scarcely be improved. The Technicolor camera sweeps through Palladian palaces and country estates and catches pleasant fragments of the earthly paradise inhabited by Russia's landed gentry-the balls and hunts, the troika races and officers' revels. The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov is fought in a dawnlit forest where snow and awakening sky gleam with as many frosty gradations of white as a pearl fresh from the sea. When Pierre, a civilian at the front, hears the opening guns of the bloody...
Many other aspects of the movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
...Great Locomotive Chase (Buena Vista). Walt Disney has intelligently made a Technicolor, CinemaScope film out of one of the best adventure stories of the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...