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Jacques Offenbach himself labeled his "Tales of Hoffmann" a "fantastic opera," and the London Films adaptation is just that. The Technicolor screenplay displays all of the lavishness and sensuality that the libretto and score imply. The result may surprise the unwary moviegoer, and it may even irritate him a little. For that reason it is important to remember that the movie, like the opera, is intended to be "fantastic...
...series of technicolor flashbacks, "North Forty" tells the occasionally exciting, occasionally plodding story of the resistance of an isolated band of Wyoming sheep ranchers to the usurpation of their grazing land for a Navajo reservation...
...great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfuly convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the Old West...
Astaire's dancing, Jane Powell's charm, and the Technicolor pageantry of London during Elizabeth's wedding more than compensate for a weak plot. As musicals go, "Royal Wedding" is good light-hearted entertainment...
Bird of Paradise (20th Century-Fox] splurges Technicolor, lush Hawaiian scenery and anthropological detail on the job of salvaging a 1912 play (and 1932 movie) about ill-starred love in Polynesia. The result is eye-filling and sometimes interesting. But quaint Hollywood customs get in the way of the South Seas folklore...