Word: technicolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kismet (MGM) is the old romance, made famous by the late Otis Skinner, dressed up in some of the finest Technicolor yet filmed...
...only thing dull about Resisting Enemy Interrogation is its title. This latest instructional product of the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit is as much of a success in its own spy-thriller class as the FMPU's famed Technicolor documentary Memphis Belle (TIME, April...
Supposedly "starring" Maria Montez in a unique but hardly revolutionary role an her own twin sister, Hollywood seems to have burned out another goodly batch technicolor film on the old and oh-so-familiar South Sea Isle set. To be complimentary, honorable mention should be given to the trained monkey and glassy-eyed snake for outstanding performances...
...Sure enough, it was no Gone With the Wind. The Wind blew for four solid hours; Went goes on for ten minutes short of three. The Wind cost $4,000,000 to make; Went, a mere $2,400,000. The Wind was photographed in some of the most florid Technicolor ever seen; Went is in Quaker black & white and Hollywood's pearliest mezzotones. The Wind was perhaps the greatest entertainment natural in screen history; Went, though its appeal is likely to be broad, is essentially a "woman's picture." But it is obviously, in every foot, the work...
...battle of War Bonnet Gorge, for which Cody was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down...