Word: technicolorfully
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...technicolor is excellent in spots, but the plot of "The Great Mr. Handel" is disjointed, however historically accurate. Economy of production shows up in such scenes as that in Foxhall, where the camera stresses the characters and no sense of the surroundings is given. The arias of the "Messiah" which are presented are mostly the female ones, and well done, but the lack of a good male voice necessitated the omission of several of the best parts...
...swift ground shrivels into easy, floating legibility, cinemaddicts feel that sudden magical suction in the midriff which the actual experience brings. Climax of this effect: a magnificent close-up of the landing gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating the sky with vapor trails, and when (over Germany) the flak begins to pop its thick corn. Shots which are merely powerful in black-&-white become overpoweringly real...
...their title hit on a moonlit country buggy ride. In real life Jack Norworth dreamed up Harvest Moon in a Manhattan subway train. Just as fictitiously, Nora tries to save Jack's career by pretending to throw him over, but is last seen with him in triumphant Technicolor, smiling out of a harvest moon in Ziegfeld's 1907 Follies...
...magazines have been aghast for the past month or so over the advertisements for "Lady in the Dark,"--the first ones in which Ginger Rogers has allowed her rather muscular legs to be shown to the non-paying public. But the movie itself, despite the lure of Miss Rogers' technicolor outfit and the legs, does not have nearly the punch which was supplied by the stage play of the same name...
...Lady in the Dark" is a complex job, as was the show, which required a revolving stage, and parts of it are worth the price of admission. The technicolor is gorgeous, and the setting impressive, making the whole movie a gorgeous spectacle. It has many of the bits that made the Moss Hart production the hit of 1941, but it doesn't go over entirely; and it's hard to place the blame...