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Viva Maria! looks like a Hollywood comic western, the sort the studios describe as "rollicking round-ups," or "madcap hi-jinx with the men who made the West." This means a screen as wide as the Oregon Trail, technically superb Technicolor, expensive cranes to boost its enormous cameras anywhere they want to go, and in general everything that the little men with the big checks...
Died. Natalie Dunfee Kalmus, 87, co-developer in 1914, with her late Chemist-Husband Herbert Kalmus, of Technicolor, first and still most widely used color film process, who served as color director (1915-49) when Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of the field, turning out such early successes as Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Becky Sharp (1935), but quit after losing a bitter California divorce suit against her husband when it came out that they had been secretly divorced since 1921, thus invalidating her claim to half his property, estimated at $3,000,000; of an intestinal obstruction; in Boston...
There are some good Technicolor Panavision picture postcards of the Sierra Madre country on Mexico's northern plateau. And there is a certain fascination in watching Dean Martin's face run the gamut of unshavenness from shot to shot (for one brief sequence he seems to have a mustache). But the only niche The Sons of Katie Elder will have in cinema history is that it is 58-year-old John Wayne's 165th triumph of Right over Wrong...
...Crist is not only honest; she is blunt. She wrote of Where Love Has Gone: "A trashy dose of sex-and-soap . . . being palmed off on us on the premise that we go to the movies to see smuttied-up, padded-out, mucked-down television serials in Technicolor and Techniscope." Of Anne Bancroft's performance in The Pumpkin Eater, she said: "She seems a cowlike creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis...
...epic, he envisioned a ten-hour film, costing $25 million and depicting nearly all the still waters and flaming furnaces, from Creation to Gethsemane. When he actually started shooting the picture in Rome last May, he had boiled it down to a mere three-hour, $15 million Technicolor frieze of episodes from Genesis 1-22, with Christopher Fry writing the script and a cast of a dozen stars, including Ava Gardner, as the Mother of the Jews, and John Huston, who plays Noah and also directs the film...