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- Robert Harris
I'm never quite certain how to relate to the Fox three-strip Technicolor films, as they no longer provide anything close to the original look of Technicolor. And that concept needs to be taken a step further, dependent upon what efforts have been used to try to help what elements that do survive.
This may be more true for Busby Berkeley's 1943 eye-popping The Gang's All Here, than for some of the more quietly colored productions.
What you do get, courtesy of Twilight Time's new Blu-ray, is the over the top talent of Carmen Miranda, and the (to this day) incredible Lady in the Tooti-Fruitti Hat number.
The fun is still intact, along with the whole gang, less the color.
What you do get thanks to Fox's astute 1970s archival staff is a meh Eastman Color version, that while still color, looks nothing like a quality dupe from Technicolor -- take a look at Warner's 1939 Dodge City, or 1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, to see how special three-strip can still look via quality Eastman inter-elements -- and more like a decent old, slightly faded color film, which it is.
The film still remains a hoot, and great fun, and is recommended as a film. Just don't, for a moment, think you're seeing anything representative of original Technicolor, last seen via Eric Spilker's re-lease in the early '70s in blazing three-strip!
Image - 2.5
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 3
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
RAH
This may be more true for Busby Berkeley's 1943 eye-popping The Gang's All Here, than for some of the more quietly colored productions.
What you do get, courtesy of Twilight Time's new Blu-ray, is the over the top talent of Carmen Miranda, and the (to this day) incredible Lady in the Tooti-Fruitti Hat number.
The fun is still intact, along with the whole gang, less the color.
What you do get thanks to Fox's astute 1970s archival staff is a meh Eastman Color version, that while still color, looks nothing like a quality dupe from Technicolor -- take a look at Warner's 1939 Dodge City, or 1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, to see how special three-strip can still look via quality Eastman inter-elements -- and more like a decent old, slightly faded color film, which it is.
The film still remains a hoot, and great fun, and is recommended as a film. Just don't, for a moment, think you're seeing anything representative of original Technicolor, last seen via Eric Spilker's re-lease in the early '70s in blazing three-strip!
Image - 2.5
Audio - 5
4k Up-rez - 3
Pass / Fail - Pass
Recommended
RAH