Word: technicolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than thrills. In this it differs from the original Phantom, which Universal produced in the shock-absorbing '20s as a shivery vehicle for the late multiform Lon Chaney. The 1943 Phantom is bantam-sized Claude Rains, who attempts to terrify by sheer force of character, scar tissue and Technicolor. Scuttling about in a robin's-egg blue mask, Cinemactor Rains scares nobody but his fellow cinemactors...
...melodrama about love in the tropics with all the usual background of palm trees, native uprisings, buried treasure, virile torsos, and dishonest fellows. In the end of course Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Carribbean blue. The only good thing about the picture is the technicolor...
...desk, and received the press. Still under age, Hero Wherley was being discharged from the Air Forces. But before his uniform and stripes are put away, Cliff will make a nationwide morale tour. The story he has to tell is a boy's dream in Technicolor. The Army believes it will spur a landslide of 17-year-old enlistments. Cliff Wherley...
Conditions in the local theaters are sad, too. Loews is proud of a Technicolor Tommy Dorsey and a badly hacked, deleted Cole Porter score in "Du Barry Was A Lady." The RKO, on the other hand, likes its outrages in the flesh, and consequently has both Tommy Tucker, and--of all people--Margie Hart, singing--of all things--a parody of "You Made Me Love You," dedicated to Mr. Minsky...
Best Foot Forward (M.G.M.) is an effervescent edition of the Broadway musical hit by the young, of the young and, especially, for the young. It has almost the same cast, but Winsocki prep school has become a military academy (uniforms look nice in Technicolor) and who should be playing for the prom but Harry James, the Svengali of the Solid Senders...