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Leafing through its 124 expensive pages, readers might well feel that Curtis had labored to bring forth (at 50? a copy) a monthly Technicolor mouse. There were tricky layouts, eye-filling maps and charts, 33 editorial pages in color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Project | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

When Writer-Producers Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano set out to produce a Technicolor Western, they decided they wouldn't spare the horses. They didn't: the picture cost $1,400,000. They thought it might be a good idea to incorporate all the time-tested chestnuts they could think of. They were confident that stringing all the horse-opera clichés together and playing them straight would be parody enough. Explains Fessier: "We grooved the tongue in the cheek. Why pull punches? We gave them everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...costly production of the best-selling (more than a million copies) novel by Ben Ames Williams. The story's central idea might be plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black-&-white picture or in a radio show with plenty of organ background. But in the rich glare of Technicolor, all its rental-library characteristics are doubly glaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Said one British doctor, as reported in the New Statesman and Nation: "I've had to stop putting American magazines in my waiting room. Their Technicolor food advertisements upset my patients, whose food is so monochromatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Monochrome Menus | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Seldom has a motion picture of such grandiose pretensions violated so many axioms of good cinema. Fantasy is played utterly straight; consistently inappropriate tone is aggravated by dialogue flat, childish; top talent and lavish Technicolor are squandered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

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