Word: technicolorfully
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...story is competently filmed in pretty Technicolor, and it is probably accurate from barnacles to binnacles, but it lingers too long over the details. The producers seem to have forgotten that in war pictures, as in true love, there is little to be said for long engagements...
Legend of the Lost (Batjac; United Artists) is filled with authentic Technicolor views of Libya, and packed with authentic Hollywood hokum. The movie stars Rossano Brazzi as a no-good do-gooder, Sophia Loren as a bad girl from Timbuktu, and John Wayne as the man who discovers something good about...
...lovable as a kitten and no more frightening. In two earlier filmings of Victor Hugo's romance, Lon Chaney (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939) took care to spook the audience out of its wits before building up sympathy for the. lovesick, crookbacked bell ringer. But the current Technicolor version (with a French supporting cast, dubbed-in English) introduces Notre Dame's resident troll tenderly stroking a pigeon on one of the cathedral's balustrades, and the film plays hearts-and-gargoyles...
...reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...
Director Fred Kohlman has done little with the vast amounts of money spent on sets and talent. Almost no effort has been made to present the songs imaginatively, and the Technicolor would have been better used to show more of the movie's San Francisco setting. Since this movie is a musical and has big stars, it will surely make a lot of money; however, it is hardly worth the pilgrimage to Boston...