…in which Dino De Laurentiis spends mega-bucks turning John Ford’s thirties drama about a culture clash in the South Seas into a turgid tale of forbidden love, but the results are just a tempest in a teapot…
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by Jason Farrell on May 17, 2016 - 1:08 pm
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“Troubled Production”
Call me Cassandra, but this is not the last time those two words will appear in this roundtable
#2 by lyzard on May 17, 2016 - 7:04 pm
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But unlike Cassandra, EVERYONE believes you!
#3 by Greywizard on May 19, 2016 - 2:04 pm
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When I learned about this movie back when I was a teenager, the reports about it gave me a morbid curiosity, but I could never find the movie in video stores.
Now that I’ve read your review, Lyz, I see I wasn’t missing anything. Thank you for sparing me some serious pain.
#4 by lyzard on May 19, 2016 - 6:10 pm
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It’s what I do! 🙂
Though I guess as far as Dino’s epics go, this is one of the more “unknown” ones. It acquired its reputation as a stinker pretty quickly and there’s been no shift in its reputation over the years. I don’t recall this ever being on, or available, here, either. When I finally made up my mind about it I had to import a DVD. (From South Korea, land of high quality, lost cost DVDs…)
#5 by Jason Farrell on May 20, 2016 - 10:51 am
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It sounds kind of great to me, but I have a sweet tooth for one word disaster films (EARTHQUAKE, METEOR et al).
As far as Mia Farrows palm chewing, at least it’s a dramatic tic. I mean that’s something you can at least hang your hat on. Her usual Anti-Acting does not even allow for dramatic tics (perhaps best exemplified by the blank space that was her performance in Allen’s ALICE)