Word: sprites
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...lines are read without all the emotion they call for, Bing somehow remains true to the spirit of the film. As the boy, ten-year-old Christian Fourcade, a French child actor with, happily, no suggestion of the professional about him, has the delicate, transient quality of a sprite face seen out of the corner of the eye; looked at directly, his charm dissolves. But he is the kind of child every motherly woman immediately wants to put an extra sweater on, and he is well directed (by George Seaton) to make the most of this quality without making...
Flamboyant imagination is not necessary to fly with the First Pixie Squadron to the Technicolor world of Never Land. Tinkerbelle, a fetching sprite in a clinging Jantzen, sprinkles the Darling family with so much pixie dust that ample remains for the audience. From there on, Indians, Pirates, songs, and the Boys make everyone wish they were seeing the show for the first time. Maude Adams and Jean Arthur, after all, never really could fly; this...