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Shapely senoritas, south-of-the-borderish tunes that send you away humming, and easy-on-the-eyes technicolor partly atone for incoherent plot and questionable symbolism in Walt Disney's current full-length animated feature, "The Three Caballeros," but the-final product falls short of the usual Disney standard...
Roddy McDowall, some very appealing horses, and skillful, if sometimes over-intense, technicolor have been thrown together in a game attempt to make "Thunderhead" palatable entertainment, but even Hollywood has no antidote for poor writing, miscasting, and haphazard direction. While horse fanciers and McDowall enthusiasts may thrill to "Thunderhead," the more critical will probably--and properly--consider it a mass of mistakes...
...settings are excellent: this is the New York of the early century without the dependence on costume with which Hollywood is so often content. So many of these period pieces are in technicolor, with gala balls and sparkling lights. "Experiment Perlious emphasizes plush and bric-a-brac furnishings of the claustrophobic New York houses that graced the day and are in many cases still standing; in this respect it excels its cinematic model, "Gaslight...
Columbia's "A Song to Remember" combines lush technicolor with the music of Frederic Chopin in a pleasant, if unauthentic, representation of the famous pianist-composer's life...
Metro and Paramount are the most frequent employers of Technicolor. Universal's dabblings, in this case at any rate, descend to color per so. In black-and-white, "Can't Help Singing" would be nothing. Even with Color, music by Jerome Kern, and stiff, conventional acting by Deanna Durbin and Robert Paige, it represents the lowest in a painfully low series...