Word: technicolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...male cast, whose embarrassing way of laughing at Spencer Tracy's feeblest sallies gets loonier as they get hungrier, is more than run-of-the-mill cowboys and Indians. Responsible are King Vidor's veteran directing, his earnest regard for realism in frontier history, some first-rate Technicolor photography, and the capable acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find him on the warpath than to find toothless...
...here, boys; come and see it. You will see four hours of superb acting, excellent scenes in technicolor, a wonderful story. But you will not see a great picture. GWTW has been produced on a monumental scale using the best of everything Hollywood has to offer, but the story is not big enough to make the picture go down in film history. Not that it necessarily should, of course, but there has been so much ballyhoo about this being motion pictures' greatest triumph. It is not. Rather it is the best in entertainment...
...Kenneth Roberts may not agree on the history of the westward movement, but they can both make it mighty interesting. Harvard's lecture-hall Leatherstocking brings it to life with words alone, but in "Northwest Passage," now at Loew's State and Orpheum, Kenneth Roberts has the help of Technicolor, gorgeous location scenes, Spencer Tracy, and Robert Young. Tracy plays the superman of frontier tall tales, Major Rogers of Rogers' Rangers, who performs stupendous feats of leadership on a handful of parched corn a day. It is a delight and a pleasure to see him take an overwritten part like...
...sheer magnificence, Hollywood has rarely produced anything that can compare with "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," the current attraction at the University Theatre. The costuming is brilliant, the sets impressive and seemingly authentic and the technicolor, which has been so cousistenly bad in the past, achieves a new and more than welcome reality. As is to be expected however, the personal triumph of Bette Davis as the ruthless but passion-torn Elizabeth is the high point of the picture. For this is the type of gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems...
...critical audience on their hands, the producers have done a painstaking job from start to finish, and have not been sparing with the money (as you doubtless are aware by now). The result--four solid hours of Civil War South, negro mammies, hoop skirts, and Clark Gable, all in technicolor--is mighty impressive. Vivien Leigh is absolutely all that could be asked in the way of charm, and Clark Gable, as everyone has known since the book was first published, fits Rhett Butler to perfection...