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...mousy as to seem spiritless. Composer Jay Livingston and Lyricist Ray Evans have concocted some tender little lullabies for him to croon, but Gobel's singing voice scarcely carries the length of a baby's crib. Gobel is a comic miniaturist, and a Broadway stage is too wide-screen for his TV-styled gifts...
Director Jose Ferrer tries hard, but what can he do with a script that, in order to work in some snowy New England scenery, presents a glorious, wide-screen miscarriage on skis...
...Presley with muscles called Fabian, and by a starlet known as Tuesday Weld, who displays at least as much acting ability as Monday Wash-takes over with plenty of energy, if not much style. And Director Blake Edwards runs the show with all sorts of technical razzle-dazzle: the wide-screen wipes are a clever touch, the hurry-ups are corny but funny, and some of the blackouts are just great...
...submersibles. Into George Washington and Patrick Henry went 300-ton capacity air-conditioning equipment, air scrubbers and precipitants to remove irritants, and oxygen generators to enable the subs to manufacture their own habitable environment. Bunks were designed for comfort, no-lint skivvies procured to keep the air filters clear; wide-screen movie equipment and exercise gear were installed. These Polaris subs were to be no "pig boats" of fragrant Navy memory...
...black-and-white photography is excellent, and it is to the credit of Director Jack Cardiff that he has used his Cinema-Scope cameras in sets seldom larger than the parlor of a miner's cottage, with none of the 40-foot ear lobes that sometimes result from wide-screen intimacy. Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling. The impact, of course, is twice as forceful as if the air had been filled with flying coal carts. Much...