Technicolor

Technicolor

28 Episodes

Feast your eyes on some of the lushest spectacles in movie history with these candy-colored classics, portals into a teeming realm of dreams and fantasies.

Technicolor
  • The Four Feathers

    Episode 1

    Directed by Zoltán Korda • 1939 • United Kingdom
    Starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez

    This Technicolor spectacular, directed by Zoltán Korda, is considered the finest of the many adaptations of A. E. W. Mason’s classic 1902 adventure novel about the British empire’s exploits in ...

  • A Kid for Two Farthings

    Episode 2

    Directed by Carol Reed • 1955 • United Kingdom
    Starring Jonathan Ashmore, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors

    Set against a rich evocation of postwar London’s East End Jewish quarter, Carol Reed’s touchingly bittersweet Technicolor fable concerns a young boy (Jonathan Ashmore) who comes into possession of...

  • The Divorce of Lady X

    Episode 3

    Directed by Tim Whelan • 1938 • United Kingdom

    Droll comedy of manners and morals that was based on a play and made as a film once before in 1932 as COUNSEL'S OPINION, directed by Allan Dwan. The four screenwriters' literate script of Biro's adaptation of the stage work takes Oberon to a London ...

  • French Cancan

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jean Renoir • 1955 • France, Italy
    Starring Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix

    Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the canc...