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Caesar and Cleopatra (J. Arthur Rank-United Artists) cost the British $3 to $5 million (by pressagent accounting), and will be peddled in the U.S. as a spectacle. As spectacle, this Gabriel Pascal production does itself proud-from stupendous Technicolor replicas of Ptolemaic Egypt down to intimate studies of the young Queen's décolletage. But all the munificent movie art does not conceal art of a rarer, riper kind: the dialogue for this superspectacle was written by a great master of prose and of wit, George Bernard Shaw. By & large, the playing is worthy of the dialogue...
...weather moviegoers are crazy over horses, music, slapstick, fancy dress, Technicolor and Bette Davis playing twins. Variety's totting up of midsummer winners at the box office...
...this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls, the superb outdoor scenery...
Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful, black horseflesh (TIME, July...
Smoky. Expert Technicolor treatment of the Will James story, starring Fred MacMurray and a piece of beautiful, black horseflesh (TIME, July...