Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305067146 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6305067147 Label: United Home Manufacturer: United Home Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: United Home Release Date: August 11, 1998 Running Time: 98 minutes Sales Rank: 26831 Studio: United Home Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1940
Rating: - BUCKO LARSON.
A better-than-average action film which co-stars two attractive actors in the leads: the ultimately tragic Frances Farmer and the adonis-like Jon Hall. Victor McLaglen plays the above character, who leads an expedition to the South Seas in search of pearls, but meets with resistance from a tribal chief who is protecting his people's wealth from the fortune hunters. McLaglen uses Farmer as a ploy to attract their chief, Hall & the pair marry. But the pearl hunt is thwarted...A hard-hitting action film with first-rate photography (colour would have elevated this to five stars). Frances Farmer was beautiful and talented but self-destructive: her alcoholism would impede her career and force her early retirement in 1942 at the age of 28. Farmer was eventually committed to mental institutions - with her mother's approval. Eventually, after many hellish experiences, she made a comeback in an inept 1958 film entitled ... Read More
Rating: - This needs to be in the south seas adventure hall of fame.
Edward Small took director Alfred E. Green's cast and crew - an uncommonly attractive and brilliant assemblage- to the south seas to do the majority of this curiously undersung piece on location. Far less stylized/dated than Goldwyn's THE HURRICANE, it is admittedly riddled with cliches and formula, but packaged in such visual and technical excellence it scarcely matters.
There are scenes that will stop the heart. Chiseled adonis Jon Hall and porcelain idol Frances Farmer outlined in profile(s) against the steaming background volcano take the romantic closeup to a level that defies comparison.
Edward Small's films typically were strings of frames any one of which was an individual work of art in itself. What can one say but that with this one he outdid even himself, as did workhorse composer Edward Ward on song and score, some years prior to his work on Universal's stunning PHANTOM OF ... Read More
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- BUCKO LARSON.
- This needs to be in the south seas adventure hall of fame.
