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Davy Crockett (Disney; Buena Vista) has already been seen twice on TV; its theme song brays steadily from the nation's jukeboxes; coonskin hats, flintlock muskets and some 100 other Crockett-inspired products flood U.S. stores (TIME, May 23). Now at last, the film has reached movie theaters, but its belated arrival is far from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies...
MIKE W. PRESTON JR. Buena Vista...
...also hard on the Radcliffe Dance Group and the non-Radcliffe people who took the male parts. For a ballet sort of thing with a narrator who reads prose that usually turns into poetry must be very quiet and smooth and like a dream vista so that the dancers do for the audience what the prose cannot. When there are only sixty people scattered close in front of a small stage, it is hard for the dancers to be either silent or abstract...
...tombs, Actress Silvana Mangano has built herself a spanking new Hollywood-type villa, complete with swimming pool. Across the way from the Church of Domine Quo Vadis?, where tradition holds that Jesus appeared to the wavering Apostle Peter, an Esso station peddles axle grease and antiquities. Many a roadside vista of the old Roman campagna is now cluttered with factories, lumber yards and cheap houses...
There are songs by Irving Berlin, some of them undoubtedly familiar ("White Christmas" is sung twice, one time with Crosby and Kaye dressed as Santa Clauses) and others which merely sound familiar. Vista-Vision, like similar optical trickery, means only that less movie is spread thinner across more screen...