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Partly because of red Buttons' recent passing I watched this last night. He stars with John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, and Elsa Martinelli and they are part of an intrepid band of folks who capture big game anaimals live for zoos. Howard Hawks produced and directed this and filmed it entirely in East Africa. The many thrilling chase and capture sscenes are interspersed with holkey plot and sub plots involving romances and rtivalries and heavy drinking. But if one considers the sheer logistics of filming the chase sequences one comes away very impressed. Lots of fun.
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"...holkey plot and sub plots involving romances and rivalries and heavy drinking..."
Yeah...just like every movie Wayne made (until True Grit)! BTW, you left out standard brawl between buddies.Looking back, its amazing how the public (including a pre-adolescent me) flocked to these mindless John Wayne clunkers for 20 years in the 50s & 60s. The only things that changed between all those cookie-cutter Hawks-Wayne movies were the sets and costumes...occasionally. I couldn't sit through them now.
"hokey plot and sub plots involving romances and rivalries and heavy drinking..."Yeah...just like every movie Wayne made (until True Grit)"Wouldn't you say that "red River" and "The Searchers" are exceptions to this? Along with his performance in "True Grit" I consider these exceptionally fine roles fro Wayne.
"The Searchers" was directed by John Ford. "True Grit" was directed by Hathaway. I was surprised to see, though, that "Red River" was indeed directed by Hawks. All three were great films showing Wayne could really act with the right material. Too bad he spent most of his career making fluff.I may have been too harsh on Hawks...he had no monopoly on those typical and forgetable "John Wayne" westerns and adventure flicks of the 50s-60s.
You wrote "...just like every movie Wayne made", not every movie Wayne made with Hawks.
Sheesh. Its film forum, not sworn testimony.
I actually saw this one in the theater when it first came out. I have no idea why I went to see it but I did like the many scenes of wild life in the open.
Yea, I have hatari on VHS. Did this spawn the tv series "Daktari"? God bless John Wayne
According to the IMDB, no stunt peole were used and the actors themselves did the capturing of the animals, including the double capture of the rhino.
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