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Re: "Hokum"! (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
Thanks!
Sometimes hokum is entertaining--especially amidst downer Antonioni and Bergman watching.
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Aug 09 '07
4:23 pm PDT
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"Hokum"! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
I love that word, and have a constant use for it, but never can quite think of it when it is so very often appropriate.
I have not thought of ARABIAN NIGHTS in . . . over sixty-five years. [Well, maybe, once or twice.]
My memory is one of attraction to Maria Montez, though I did not quite know why at the time. There was that name, and those eyes. I guess that was it.
You might consider, too, Stephen, that Walter Wanger was a very resourceful producer, a man of relatively independent mind. Wanger had his hand in such films as QUEEN CHRISTINA, GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE, TRAIL OF THE LONSOME PINE (one of the first all three-strip technicolor movies), STAGE COACH, and THE LONG VOYAGE HOME. He gathered under contract a lot of new or fresh talent for ARABIAN NIGHTS to Hollywood (such as Sabu), along with a few established ones (like John Qualen). His pattern here, and later, was to make one of these technicolor extravaganzas, which always did well at the box office, in order to take a chance on a picture like SMASH-UP: THE STORY OF A WOMAN, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS or I WANT TO LIVE.
The fact that he was able to make ARABIAN NIGHTS in Technicolor was remarkable, given the energy restrictions of 1942.
But you are right, Stephen, "hokum" is the perfect word to describe ARABIAN NIGHTS.
Well said.
Alex
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Aug 09 '07
1:22 pm PDT
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