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...Loves of Carmen. It isn't art and it isn't Bizet, but it is Rita Hayworth in Technicolor (TIME, Sept...
That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...
...single cut in the film; it was shot on one set, in solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept it moving on his smallish, crowded set as freely as a dancer. Furniture and whole...
...Loves of Carmen (Columbia] gives red-haired Rita Hayworth a chance to play one of fiction's most durable hussies. To give Rita's millions of fans their money's worth, Columbia has spared nothing, not even the horses: the movie has splashy Technicolor, spicy love scenes, a talented cast, lavish sets, a stagecoach robbery, plain & fancy violence. It is only a well-dressed western with gypsy trimmings, but it is entertaining in an oldfashioned, simple-minded...
...Island with You (MGM) is a harmless little hot-weather cooler, filmed in a watery Technicolor haze. Sarongs are worn by the girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight...