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Hampered by the absence of new ideas, the success of current Westerns can only be judged on the basis of actor appeal, the magnitude of the technicolor spectacle, number of hoof-beats per square actor. "California" fails miserably on the first two counts and barely comes within minimum standards on the last. Where the hero generally carries the plot on his godlike shoulders and livens the dialogue with sardonic humor, a miscast Ray Milland almost appears to be a slightly paunchy heel...
Unlike most technicolor sagas where producers can count on beautiful seenic photography to fill in any rough spots in the script, the color of "California" is as best mediocre. It seems to be over exposed and fuzzy for the most part with the best shots losing their effect in a painful Chamber of Commerce tour through the state...
Century-Fox) is a dragging, uninspired trifle in fancy dress about "women's rights" in the late igth Century. The plot consists of one pale joke (in the 18705, typists seem to have been referred to as "typewriters"). It isn't much fun - despite the Technicolor, some hitherto unpublished Gershwin tunes. Dick Haymes's pleasant baritone, and Betty Grable's incomparable pin-up legs...
Song of Scheherazade (Universal-International) is another of those amiable semi-burlesques in Technicolor which generally feature either beauteous Maria Montez jouncing down a stairway or beauteous Yvonne de Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
...both top and bottom halves of the current doubleheader on the Square, Keenan Wynn and Jack Carson, a brace of Hollywood's better wits, find themselves stymied by some of the feeblest of material. Garbed in the inevitable technicolor. "The Time, The Place, and The Girl" turns out to be an all-too-typical musical, straight off the moviemakers seemingly endless assembly line. Jack Carson does his best to liven things up a bit, handling a sparse handful of gags with a veteran hand, and most of the musical numbers, though of no great significance, are pleasant enough...