And she's too good for Thunder Birds, a lustrous WWII propaganda brochure directed by William Wellman, whose mind must have been mercifully elsewhere during the cornball scenes of comedy relief that might have been storyboarded on bubblegum wrappers. Set in an flight school desert training site in Arizona (behold the cactus trees, raising their quilled fingers to yonder sky), Thunder Birds involves a lax romantic triangle between Tierney, Preston Foster, and a British trainee whose licorice accent makes Peter Lawford sound like a Cockney lout, and showcases gorgeous aerial footage (the cinematographer was Ernest Palmer) that justifies Bosley Crowther's description of the film as a "Technicolored whooper dooper." The yellow trim of the planes slices through the azure sky amid fluffy popcorn clouds as if blur and haze had been permanently banished from the West. But it's on Tierney that the colors truly sing, the red of her lipstick matching...
- 5/26/2009
- Vanity Fair
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