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...Scripter-Producer Lamar Trotti and played by Tyrone Power, the PT-boat officer who becomes a major of guerrillas is a stock movie hero. He is equipped with a comic sidekick from Pocatello (Tom Ewell), a Tommy gun that never needs reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time...
...producers sensed the need for something extra to toss to the Technicolor camera, the picture rings in Dan Dailey, Harry James, Jeanne Grain, Reginald Gardiner and Victor Mature, all playing themselves in bit parts...
...Signal Corps in 1944. It tells the story of a single B-24 in its raid on the Ploesti oil fields, and of the thrilling escape of the plane's crew after it is shot down unintentionally by Yugoslav anti-aircraft batteries. This has some of the best Technicolor action shots to come out of the war. It is at the Exeter in Boston...
...good is CBS color TV? Most TV critics agree that the picture it produces is generally excellent. The colors are soft, not glaring, and the image is easier on the eyes than black & white TV.* The difference is much more impressive than that between black & white movies and Technicolor. Because the TV screen is so much smaller than a movie screen, color gives a great deal more information. Football and basketball are easier to follow because of contrasting jersey colors; backgrounds are better defined and more realistic; clothes, food and furnishings become more attractive...
Since hardly anyone will have adapters and converters for home sets, CBS is relying on a series of public demonstrations of its color programs to stimulate quick interest. Most TV critics agree that CBS color is better than movie Technicolor, and CBS hopes that once the public starts seeing video revues in soft, restful colors and starts spotting contrasting jerseys in football games, black-and-white television will become a drab thing...