Legong (film)

Legong Dance of the Virgins is a 1935 film, one of the last feature films shot using the twocolor Technicolor process, and one of the last silent films shot in Hollywood.

The cameraman was threetime Academy Award winner color specialist W. Howard Greene, billed as William H. Greene, who also photographed the 2color Technicolor scenes in BenHur 1925, in addition to many other early Technicolor films. Legong was first distributed in the United States in 1935 by DuWorld Pictures Inc. and outside the U.S. by Paramount International. The score was compiled from stock cues from the Abe Meyer library, and was conducted by Samuel Wineland.The film opened in New York on October 1, 1935 at USD5.00 per ticket 84.20 in 2012 dollars. Reaction from some New York critics was positive exquisitely beautiful from one, Moments that touch the heart from another, and flaming splendor from a third. The New York Times reviewer found it a pleasant venture in the filmic literature of escape... a pretty tale, and the photoplay recites it simply and with faith. Subduing his color camera to inviting browns and pastel tints, the Marquis sets his native lovers against the rice fields, the shadowy lagoons, the pounding surf and the mountains of that island of which Paul Morand has written that it is absolutely irresistible to college boys and women of 40. Variety, on the other hand, considered it to offer nothing especially refreshing in the story... follows usual procedure for this type of native stuff though conceding A number of elaborate production scenes with oriental trappings are made doubly effective through use of color. ........

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