Word: technicolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who wanders into "Unconquered" with a completely blank mind will come out refreshed, and imbued with the feeling that as long as Gary Coopers are around, America cannot fail. Later it will dawn on him he has just witnessed the greatest Technicolor carload of DcMille hokum yet produced. Settlers and Indians battle in this latest epic from the master of the crowd scene, which has hero Cooper rubbing elbows with George Washington, Mason and Dixon, Richard Henry Lee, and a host of other non-controversial historical figures...
...ends with little Margaret, wistful as a hand-painted freckle, watching Cyd & company execute what seems to be a ballet interpretation of the Birth of the Universe, set to the elemental strains of David Rose's Holiday for Strings. la Technicolor...
...Technicolor, in piercing circus poster colors, puts the lassies into rich kirtles and the laddies into brave plaid pantaloons. Everyone also cuts such fine figures of speech that Parks gets an unscheduled giggle when he says (of his own destiny): "I canna stop the wind...
...Amber stepping, scene after scene had to be chopped out. These gaps have been plugged with some of the loudest cinemusic ever soundtracked-obviously in hopes that audiences literally will not be able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...
...cast really is a nonessential, for the players seem to have been selected more for physical appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...