The Naked Jungle
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Movie Reviews of The Naked Jungle
Movie Review: MARABUNTA
Summary: 5 Stars
The 50's were the great time for Technicolor, exotic adventures and intense stories. This film has all of this ...and more.
A wealthy,dark, handsome plantation-owner, Chistopher Leiningen welcome his mail-order bride. She is sophisticated, elegant and to his great concern extremely beautiful. Sparks fly since the begining and after memorable dialogues, about pianos and perfumes , and second hand roses, our heros must face the ultimate danger: Marabunta.
This is not maybe a very famous film, and probably will never be considered one of the masterworks of the Seventh Art, but is one of those you always watch in delight.
The cast just suits perfectly. Charlton Heston is...well he is Charlton. He is good opening the waters of the Red Sea or fighting against a lot of Chinese in Pekin. As usual he exploits his natural masculinity to create this man who has created an oasis in the middle of the jungle, but about women is a virginal man.
Eleanor Parker is probably one of the most elegant actress of her generation. Only she is able to pass though the jungle with a white gown and look perfectly well. She matches Heston with a woman who has little to lose but only will accept her terms of "surrender".
And William Conrand is excellent. Showing the temperance a good commisioner requires and acting as the amused witness in the developement of the situation.
This one of those films you always enjoy and that proves that a good story and good dialogues are basic to create a film.
Movie Review: ADVENTURE, ROMANCE, & THOSE PESTY KILLER ANTS!
Summary: 5 Stars
A furious sound of jungle drums roars as the map of South America sweeps onto the screen. This is how "The Naked Jungle" begins, it's South America 1901. Christopher Laninger (Charlton Heston) has sent for a mail order bride (the exquisite Eleanor Parker) who is making her way to his vast jungle plantation by boat. A young, but very recognizable, William Conrad (t.v.'s detective "Cannon") plays a South American lawman who visits the plantation from time to time. Abraham Sofaer plays the plantation head overseer (as he also does in the 1953 jungle-plantation classic "Elephant Walk." I knew I recognized that nose!) The introduction of Eleanor Parker to her new husband is filled with drama, friction, and intrigue. Heston wants everything he owns to be "new" and "un-handled." When Eleanor reveals that she's previously been married, but then became a widow, Heston abrutly informs her she's "another man's leavings" and wants her to leave. Heston's character longs for her and as the story progresses, falls secretly in love with her. When the jungle is swept with a plague of killer ants, they are brought together by Eleanor's strong determination to stay and win Heston over. The dvd's transfer is perfect with beautiful color and superb sound. I highly recommend this dvd, as well as sister jungle plantation romantic drama, "Elephant Walk," starring the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor, with at-the-time- husband Peter Finch, and Dana Andrews. "The Naked Jungle" is a treat when you want to escape to someplace colorful and tropic.Movie Review: A Film You AND Your Husband Can Love
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a movie for couples who fight over which video to watch. For the adventurers, you have Charlton Heston as the solitary, brooding male hero who has cut a magnificent swath through the jungle using his bare hands and the help of only several hundred unworthy underlings to whom he is a patriarchal god. The encroaching marabunta provide the exciting challenge to his domain. For the romantics, you have the encroaching mail-order bride, wonderfully played by a breathless, bosomy, brainy Eleanor Parker, who, after a few stumbles along the way, cuts a magnificent swath through Heston.
The movie has several memorable features: the wonderful banter between the protagonists, especially the bits about the piano--hilarious; the virginal Heston, who came to the jungle as a youngster and never went near the village women, shaking in his riding boots at the prospect of an experienced bride and blustering to shore up his defenses against her; and a wily female lead who plays it oh so smart. Oh yeah, the adventure stuff is good too (can you tell I'm a romantic)?
Whether you see the marabunta as a metaphor for the relationship or vice-versa, the film is a monument to Hollywoodized sexual repression. So, you'll love it when the floodgates finally open!!! (Sigh).
Movie Review: The Red Ants...very cool
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember my brothers taking me to this movie as a little kid. All that mattered was that people got eaten by red ants. I've never been fond of red ants since. In the 50's, this stuff was fodder for idiot kids like me. ("Them" and "Tarantula" were really cool.)I since discovered that the real title was "The Naked Jungle", after seeing it again on TCM or AMC, whatever."The Naked Jungle" is soap opera from beginning to end, with the "marabunta" as a catalyst. The stars are interesting. I was never a fan of Charlton Heston (as an actor), but Eleanor Parker was quite lovely, being gorgeous & tough at the same time, not unlike her magnificent performance in "Caged". The "marabunta" is, apparently, a force to be reckoned with, and makes the Amazon all that more intriguing. The beliefs of Amazonian natives is somewhat brought out, so much more brought out in Hector Babenco's "At Play in the Fields of the Lord". It's hard to make comparisons, since the sensibilities of the 50's and the 90's have been broadened. "The Naked Jungle" is really one of the first disaster films. All of the most famous disaster films were soap opera (Towering Inferno, Airport, Poseidon Adventure, etc.). In some ways, this is a trend-setter. I enjoyed it.Movie Review: Heston & Parker equals spontaneous combustion!
Summary: 5 Stars
I like this film a lot - Charlton Heston plays a 34 yr old virgin owner named Christopher of a massive plantation who marries a woman by proxy without ever meeting her. Eleanor Parker plays the woman that he finds is his stunningly gorgeous wife "Joanna." What an incredibly beautiful woman - the hair, blue eyes and ivory skin! Parker looks like a porcelain doll - she's so stunning in this color film that it just takes your breath away. Her character is strong and deliciously feminine. Christopher is both awed and intimidated by his "luck" in such a terrific catch. He knows absolutely nothing about women and never bedded one. Boy, is his character sexually repressed. He freaks out when he discovers Joanna has been married before and widowed. Memorable line "Lady, the piano you are playing has never been played before" - subtle hint that Joanna is used goods in his mind. He cannot forgive her and wants her to go back to where she came from - New Orleans. As he is trying to get rid of her, the ants show up and she proves her strength & character to him. The sexual tension and chemistry between Heston and Parker is electric. And yes, Heston is so handsome in this film.