richardchatten
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For his second film to showcase a little man attempting to set the world to rights Richard Attenborough turned his attention from Mahatma Gandhi to Charlie Chaplin.
As this film makes it abundantly clear despite his eminence in the field of silent cinema Chaplin himself was plainly in love with the sound of his voice. And we certainly hear a lot of in this film.
As this film makes it abundantly clear despite his eminence in the field of silent cinema Chaplin himself was plainly in love with the sound of his voice. And we certainly hear a lot of in this film.
Hitchcock once stated that "people don't go to the police because it's DULL". Similarly many viewers who otherwise would be exasperated at Joel McCrea's disinclination to contact the authorities when gangster John Garland is putting the hit on him find out exactly what happens when he calls in the police (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:): he ends up in court where a judge impatiently dismisses his case; while flanked by his lawyer Garfield smugly stretches out like a cat that's got the cream.
And so its back to square one.
And so its back to square one.
The title under which the English language version of this Academy Award-documentary was released was particularly apt since it contains occasional aerial shots from the point of view of an aeroplane that punctuate this record of a 1959 French expedition to the heart of darkness in Dutch New Guinea.
Seen now many of the narrator's comments seem condescending in the extreme - its talk of "real savages as Captain Cook saw them", for example, would today receive few defenders - especially as as the explorers brought along a few barbaric customs of their own, notably smoking tobacco.
Seen now many of the narrator's comments seem condescending in the extreme - its talk of "real savages as Captain Cook saw them", for example, would today receive few defenders - especially as as the explorers brought along a few barbaric customs of their own, notably smoking tobacco.
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