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Destination Moon (George Pal; Eagle Lion Classics) proves that, in Hollywood, the sky's no longer the limit. The picture speculates entertainingly in Technicolor on what may happen when man takes his first 240,000-mile flight by rocket to the moon. For a piece of science fiction, it has a surprising amount of respect for scientific fact...
Betty Grable, it has been said, has the prettiest legs in Hollywood. She also has a pretty face and other lovely features. However, in this technicolor musical of life in Chicago during the 30's, she tries to act. This is very sad because Betty Grable has the prettiest legs in Hollywood, a lovely face, and some other lovely features...
...real chase, no duels at sunup, no good saloon scenes, no cavalry, and no murdered budides. Only once does a man pull an arrow out of his chest. One redeeming feature is that the women, one in each picture, are quite attractive. Of course, both are filmed in Glorious Technicolor...
...most promising talent on TV. Cagily, they have begun to use TV to plug their pictures. The cinemoguls insist that the gregarious instinct will keep people herding together in theaters, regardless of the lure in the living room. They also point out that the cinema can offer Technicolor and airconditioning, and they are pushing work on another come-on: three-dimensional movies...
...fugitives from justice. Before they can get away to square their debt to society, Massey maltreats not only most of the cast but also some lines from Shakespeare, whose Richard III he idolizes and emulates. In the end, the screen fills up with enough blood-splotched corpses (in Technicolor) to make Richard III look like a Quaker. By that time. Bar ricade has long since done itself to death...