Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1945)

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SUDAN" . . . Another Universal Fantasy in A Blaze of Technicolor A couple of years ago, someone at Universal concocted a sure-fire formula for the production of fairy tales in Technicolor and the company and its customers ever since having been reaping a harvest (allowance made for the natural law of diminishing returns) from a succession of these fantasies. The list includes Arabian Nights, Ali Baba, White Savage, Cobra Woman and Gypsy Wildcat. Now coming up is Sudan, with the usual principals, Maria Montez and Jon Hall, this time aided and abetted by rising young Turhan Bey. The yarn deals with the loves and adven tures of a Cleopatra-like queen of the Nile and her two Mark Anthonys. Bey plays the legendary leader of an escaped slave band, while Hall is a desert vagabond full of romance and horsethievery. The sultry Montez is dressed scantily enough to make her a most striking subject for newspaper ads and posters. For fun, there is huge Andy Devine. The press sheet is replete with ballyhoo stunts that capitalize the color of the locale, the romance and the action on the broad desert. This is purely escapist stuff, boys, so smear it on thick.