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...picture's early promise of gentle parody is paid off first in juvenile whimsy and folksiness, finally in a mild flurry of standard ridin' & fightin'. Neither Technicolor nor all the warmth of McCrea's amiable personality can conceal the fact that the film is short on the basic ingredient of any western: action...
Based on a Robert Heinlein novel and filmed in technicolor, "Destination Moon" picks on a theme s unique that the move, almost by definition is highly incredible. This is to be expected, since heading for the moon at a clip of seven miles a second is a sensation no man has yet experienced. But the producers of the picture sometimes carry things to absurd extremes. For instance, when the rocket lights on the moon, the participants must first of all take part in a walky-talky interview via New York, for they are now celebrities...
Probably the chief trouble with this picture is its obvious lack of continuity. It is so loosely strung together that it resembles a vaudeville show much more than a biography. But if you like technicolor vaudeville, you will like the film...
...Warner), based vaguely on the immensely successful 1924 musical No, No, Nanette, sheds a Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...
...Black Rose (20th Century-Fox] shows how Tyrone Power brought the magnetic compass, the art of papermaking and the secret of gunpowder from far-off Cathay to 13th Century England. Based on Thomas B. Costain's lush historical novel, the film bristles with research, Technicolor, 5,600 extras (not counting 500 horses and 1,000 camels), the English countryside and sun-scorched vistas of Asian deserts. On this broad canvas, however, Scripter Talbot Jennings traces a curiously skimpy design...