the man who photographed "Raw Deal" and "T Men" actually photographed this movie. Want to know the difference between black and white and color? look no further than to compare these three films - in Tea and Sympathy you can't tell his work from a hundred others'.
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Deborah Kerr gives one of her best performances, an excellent movie on a then daring subject
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I don't think that's true. Yes, "Raw Deal" and "T Men" show off how fantastic John Alton is and how fantastic B&W photography can be. But, "Tea and Sympathy" is very distinctive to people who know Technicolor films. It's subtler yes, than B&W, no intense darks and lights, and Vincent Minnelli was dictating a distinctive color pallette, but there were two scenes that made me gasp, because they were so beautiful. And I think it had to do, not only with the lighting, but the camera movement as well. It is very apparent that the film was photographed by someone who was a class apart.
Check out Picnic. Same thing. Color film made in the late '50's, but it's very apparent that the photographer was a genius: James Wong Howe.
Black Narcissus: Jack Cardiff.