Word: technicolorful
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...weeks ago, I borrowed six bits from my roommate and went downtown to see a double feature pairing a picture called "Western Union" with another about Buffalo Bill. Aside from "Buffalo Bill's" Technicolor, they were pretty similar. Both used stock shots of bison chomping grass, both featured hundreds of war-painted extras in multi-feathered athletic supporters, both showed a genuine social concern for the plight of the Indian. More than this, "Buffalo Bill" included some scenes of a burning camp, and these--possibly discovered lying around loose on the cutting room floor--were reprinted in black-and-white...
...three couples sing, dance and clown uninhibitedly against the freshest backgrounds yet exploited by a cinemusical: actual New York landmarks shot on location in Technicolor. In the opening sequence, while the sound track pulses with the three sailors' exultant verses of New York, New York ("A wonderful town"),* the camera carries them from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Rockefeller Center, dovetailing the sights into an exciting flow that piles up both momentum and atmosphere...
Samson and Delilah (Paramount) bedizens the Biblical story with all that $3,000,000 can buy: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, 600 extras and eye-crashing Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, When My Baby Smiles at Me) which at best gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting characters. The best that can be said of the show is that Gale Robbins and June Haver, both pleasant to look at, do some nice singing and dancing, whenever they get the chance...
...Ford has used what is probably a record amount of experience to fill this movie with fine, familiar technicolor scenes. His cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy...