Hatari!
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Movie Reviews of Hatari!
Movie Review: The Duke, baby animals and romance=tons of smiles
Summary: 5 Stars
This was one of the first movies to combine the majesty of Africa with a amusing plot and compelling Mancini music score. The Duke plays it true to type but it is director Howard Hawks' wonderful use of Africa's natural beauty and its animals that elevates this above the usual Wayne fare. Groundbreaking moviemaking it is not, but for sheer G-rated enjoyment and some truly memorable scenes/music it is hard to top. According to Hawks the actors actually captured the animals themselves (no stunt doubles) and there is little reason to doubt him since this was way before the computer effects seen in Forrest Gump. The mark of a great movie is that it is timeless. Unless you knew the Duke's bio intimately you could not tell what decade it was shot. Stunning visuals, a crisp tongue-in-cheek script, a chart-topping song (true--Baby Elephant Walk), and the Duke poking a little fun at himself, Hatari! is a movie that does not take itself too seriously but still delivers the goods many times over. I've seen it 50 times since it first came out and am always a little sad at the end that it ended. They don't make them that way any more. This is a movie you can enjoy with the family or can leave in the hands of a baby sitter and not worry that your kids. Highest possible "fun" rating. In its own way as good as anything the Duke did. Watch it again and listen to how versatile Mancini's score is. Still my all-time favorite movie.Movie Review: Cowboy (or cowboys?) in Africa
Summary: 5 Stars
As in Hellfighters, the Duke here explicates a little-known modern profession, in this case that of wild-animal catcher for zoos, film companies, laboratories, and the like. He plays Sean Mercer, the senior "hunter" in a multinational group based somewhere in East Africa and working for the daughter (Giardon) of their old (French) boss. Complications begin when The Indian (Cabot), one of the most experienced men in the group, is gored by a rhino, and continue when an arrogant young Frenchman (Blain) tries to muscle in as his replacement while he's in the hospital. Then a newcomer (Martinelli) arrives at the farm: an Italian photojournalist who neglected to mention, during negotiations, that she was female. She and Sean enact "The Taming of the Shrew" for the rest of the film, while Pockets (Buttons), the company's driver, struggles to overcome his shy devotion to boss-lady Brandy. Filmed on location, the movie includes some heart-pounding animal-chase scenes (watch those rhinos!), splendid scenery (you'll gape when you see the open-air well used by the Masai), and liberal humor (Dallas and the baby elephants, her "adoption" by the local native tribe, and Pockets' scheme to bag several hundred monkeys in one go). This epic comedy-adventure should be popular with all ages.Movie Review: GREAT WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL AGES
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw "Hatari" in a large theater in Manhattan in 1962. I am pretty sure I was at "Radio City Music Hall" which, besides the "Rockettes", had about the widest movie screen on the planet, surround sound before there was surround sound, and room for an audience of about 5,000 viewers on numerous levels. I really did not want to go to see this silly movie, but my much older sister [12 years older] promised a Baked Alaska after the show [I just knew it sounded like alot of ice cream.], so I grudgingly went. I don't recall much about the Rockettes, but when the movie came on, the first thing I noticed was a rhinoceros running with a bunch of crazy people chasing it in a couple of broken-down, filthy trucks and fishing poles! The rhino got away, but my attention was their's for the rest of the film.
Now on Widescreen DVD, with better sound and a large screen TV, you can see this film much as I did back in 1962. "Hatari" is basically an outdoor adventure. In previous releases, this film was really hurt by poor video transfer, pan and scan, excessive editing, and poor sound quality. This new DVD release is by far the most thrilling and realistic way to see "Hatari" that I have experienced since 1962 at Radio City.
DVD FEATURES: THEATRICAL TRAILER, but it is the same 3 minute one I saw in 1962 and it is still a good way to see what Hatari has to offer.
Movie Review: HATARI! means Danger!
Summary: 5 Stars
With the cast doing up close and personal stunts with African animals, including in the capture sequences, there was more actual danger in this film than most!
In Hatari!, John Wayne leads a group of professional animal capture experts, filling orders for zoos worldwide. Their season of hunting is complicated when one of the group is gored by a rhino, and by a female photographer (Dallas) who shows up. When Dallas begins to accumulate a nursery of baby elephants, things get even more complicated.
A budding romance between Sean (Wayne) and Dallas is by no means overdone, but does provide a few of the many amusing moments in this excellent tale, full of slice of life moments on the African veldt and in the hunters' compound. Such solid acting talent as Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, and Hardy Kruger help fill a delightful cast which operates with perfect chemistry.
Listen closely as the cast prods and pushes a zebra into a capture crate. You'll hear John Wayne say "Get him the hell in there!" While common even in family hour programming for decades now, you didn't hear even "hell" and "damn" in much movie dialog in 1962! LOL
Another treat is the rocket shot to capture monkeys.
This is a one of a kind movie. If somehow you haven't seen it yet, make sure you do. You won't be disappointed.
Movie Review: Howard Hawks classic with John Wayne on the veldt
Summary: 5 Stars
Sean Mercer (John Wayne) and his co-workers are in the business of capturing wild African animals for zoos. They fill a quota of exotic animals including the dangerous rhinos. They take on a representative D'Allesandro; the representative turns out to be a woman (Elsa Martinelli) and of course this is man's work. To top this off the female that grew up with them is coming of age and stirring up some rivalry for here affections.
All the people and situations are fun to watch. Some are a little cutesy, but they work. For example in one scene, all the animals watch on apprehensively as a thorn is pulled out of one's side. They play "Baby Elephant Walk (Instrumental)", as Elsa Martinelli becomes a surrogate mother. Will the Indian (Bruce Cabot) survive his deadly encounter with the rhino? When they capture the monkeys look closely at the bird cage helmet. Is it the same one used in "Bachelor in Paradise" (1961)?
Not only is this a good movie with the standard Wayne formula, but it also has many of the actors that travel from one John Wayne movie to another.
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