Against a series of lavishly simple CinemaScope backgrounds, composed mostly of semiabstract arches, columns and walls and WarnerColored in pale hues, Director Victor Saville has .
That Painter Calcagno remains emphatically from San Francisco is demonstrated by his semiabstract paintings, saturated with rich California earth tones and the shifting, fog-ridden .
Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops.