Word: polyphemus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder is that this Polyphemus of productions does not simply collapse of its own overweight; but, thanks principally to Showman Todd, the picture skips along with an amazing lightness-like a fat lady winning a cha-cha contest. As a travelogue, Around the World is at least as spectacular as anything Cinerama has slapped together. The customer is offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th...