Word: technicolorful
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...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...
...this picture than Alexander did on the entire conquest of the Persian Empire, and there can be no doubt that, in some ways, his effect is even more shattering than the martial Macedonian's. The picture presents two hours and 25 minutes of continuously colossal spectacle in CinemaScope, Technicolor and stereophonic sound. There are 6,000 people in the cast and 1,000 horses. Several regiments of the Spanish army were rented for the battle scenes, and a sizable slice of Spain was borrowed. Three towns were taken over for incidental scenes. Europe was ransacked for theatrical supplies...
...setting is a Vermont village adorned in the technicolor hues of Autumn. Harry, a stranger, is found dead at the top of the hill. The rabbit-hunting old man, the frustrated town matron, and the rebellious wife all suspect each is responsible for the evil deed himself. The first two are remorseful, the last seems pretty relieved...
...There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...
...steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They are all colorful, but the Technicolor looks as if it were printed on the back of an old tortilla...