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The acting is splendid (especially by at least three of the Bastounes family), the witty dialogue rings true, and it's a pleasure to get involved with characters who aren't Ken and Barbie clones.
And in the series, those partially overemphasized religious elements sometimes got a little annoying in the otherwise splendid science-fantasy plot.
Curtiz's direction is marvelous and authentic, art direction and costumes are splendid, Korngold's music score is unique and the Cinematography Color is astonishingly beautiful so that deserved to be awarded.
If you have the chance, catch this splendid Ivanhoe remake on the tube or on VHS (it is a crying shame that this doesn't come on DVD, Amazon).
In order to compensate for heroes and villains parted (or never met) during previous movies, Hakeswill is replaced by Bickerstaff (brilliantly played by Peter-Hugo Daly), Morris is replaced by Simmerson (Michael Cochrane is splendid as the gutless git), Lawford, McCandless, and (if you're picky) Blas Vivar are all replaced by Harper, and the Sultan is replaced by his son.
NO ONE plays a villain better than George Sanders, and he gives his usual splendid portrayal in this film.
There are some splendid supporting performances: Virginia Leith, with a voice just like that of today's Selma Blair, was intriguing and had such promise, but never got the parts to show what she could have done in her career.
Rupert Everett was okay, I suppose, but the splendid Ian Hart was completely wasted in this production.
This one has Jeanette MacDonald and Brian Aherne and is splendid all on its own.
She was still beautiful, still a splendid actress.
I really feel the splendid ideas of scripts and the good quality of cinematographer and music too.
A splendid satire on the Olympic industry and TV sports programmes.
"Doc Hollywood" is a splendid view of America as it would like to be seen,all the more remarkable then that it was directed by a Scotsman.
On this point I probably stand in splendid isolation (or to quote Finn Malmgren: "emptiness, loneliness, beauty, and purity").
Even the dialogues in the taxi are splendid!
This plus the splendid technicolor is a feast for the eyes.
This was a shear waste of money on the part of Franco that could have been his masterpiece with the expensive sets and costumes that were absolutely splendid.
All set amongst the splendid flowers and apparent tranquility that is Southern England.
But Eytan Fox did a splendid job with the time he had.
The only saving grace is the splendid work of Errol Flynn, who almost manages the impossible task of making Mahbub Ali a real and realistic person instead of a spout for the pouring out of novelistic and archaic dialog.
And, last but not least, an splendid photography in wonderful Technicolor.
A poetic tone, a profound humanism, graceful and splendid perfomances by sadly neglected actors and an innovativeness that a more splashy, slick film like "American Beauty" lacked.
The story line is simple, the ending happy, the people snappily dressed and the sets splendid.
Emma Thompson does a splendid job with giving depth to a character as Nanny McPhee.
The costumes are amazing, the sets splendid, the Technicolor never looked better -- but to top it all off, the swordplay, choreographed by the legendary maestro Fred Cavens (Adventures of Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro) is second to none.
Splendid setpieces hilite this chronicle of a gangster's rise and fall; perhaps best known is the ol' Grapefruit to the Face trick Jim pulls on Mae Clarke, but my favorite is when they deliver the body to Mama, on a slab.
The cast is terrific and I suspect we'll be hearing more from Erika Burke and Juliet Furness who did splendid jobs with Macbeth and Lady M respectively.
It's a shame that this one chased away so many movie goers that they decided not to turn out for the splendid (by Matt Helm standards) "The Wrecking Crew", the last and best of the series.
The film operates as something of a crime thriller/police procedural type affair, shot through with splendid scenes involving the aforementioned killer that give it a delicious giallo current.
The cast of characters is very good and Dan (Aykroyd, obviously) play a splendid cameo but I'm not satisfied at all.
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