The Naked Jungle
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Movie Reviews of The Naked Jungle
Movie Review: Ow! ow! owowowow!
Summary: 4 Stars
No blackboards here! This is the real thing, with Heston fun as jungle plantation boss; mail-order bride Eleanor Parker is classy. No problem the khaki-clad Heston can't handle and nothing fazes him-until he's warned of...MARABUNTA. Ouch!
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: The stars are for the movie itself...
Summary: 5 Stars
...not for the studio releasing this DVD. And for "Reviewer: B. Graham "Mercmoon" who should get real info. Although I've seen this one at the time it was released in theaters, and have been waiting for it since the beginning of DVDs, I was almost sure it was widesceen (as is IMDB). Now I'm 100% sure since it's going to be released in France in the original screen ratio of 1.77. FULLSCREEN AS AN OPTION IS UNDERSTANDABLE, AS THE DEFAULT IT IS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!! And when they add "This film has been formatted to fit your screen", it's only adding insult to injury, since the result does not 'fit' my screen, it's disgracing it!!! If FBI, Interpol, etc, would fine those studios for their contempt of intellectual & artistic property (botching the format being worse than common piracy), they could be regarded as really enforcing copyrights, and not as the helpers enforcing crookery!!!! Movie Review: fire ants and fiery hearts
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in 1901 in the Amazon jungle, this fabulous "Insect Feature" has excellent special effects and atmosphere, with Charlton Heston as a mucho macho man who is at war with the dreaded marabunta, the killer red ants who threaten to take over his plantation. He is also at war with his heart, as he tries to stay aloof to his mail order bride from New Orleans, the beautiful Eleanor Parker. Parker is cool as a mint julep in her Edith Head gowns, and tough enough to stand by her man; the chemistry between them sizzles, and they look so very fine together. William Conrad is also good as the Commissioner, as he warns them to escape the billions of approaching ants which are "forty square miles of agonizing death !".
One of the best things about this film is the soundtrack by Daniele Amfitheatrof, which owes a lot to Stravinsky and Darius Milhaud, and is perfect in the way it underscores the dialogue, and accentuates the action. It's really worth just listening to this film once, to fully appreciate the music and the sound effects.
Ernest Lazlo's Techicolor cinematography is marvelous, and the Byron Haskin direction fast paced, with Heston doing most of his own stunts, which included having those nasty ants crawling on him.
Some of this film is quite exciting, some of it hilarious, and it's always extremely entertaining, and is the absolute best of the bug genre films.
As the ants bare the jungle, Eleanor tries to bare Chuck's soul...will she succeed ? watch this superb jungle romance and find out !
Total running time is 95 minutes.
Movie Review: "20 miles long ,2 miles wide......Marabuta!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Another film on the "It should have been on dvd already" list. Thisis again fine vintage entertainment that still holds up thru repeat
viewings.
Based on the novel "Lanlogen and the ants" Charlton Heston stars as
the main character a plantation owner whose roots go further in the
ground than any of trees in the amazon, who has cut all ties to the
civilized world outside his. That is until "made to order" bride to
be Eleanor Parker shows up on his step. Prim,Proper and intelligent
& a mind of her own, she is not at all what he expected his brother
to send to him form New Orleans. To say more would spoil the show
I will tell if your screamish about ants (That's Marabuta in this
neck of the woods) then prepare yourself for millions of them as
they threaten to destroy everything in thier path leaving nothing
but "The naked jungle"
A great film with just the right amount of romance and adventure
Heston has never been brutal and Parker never more beautiful and
William Conrad in a good supporting role. Paramount's VHS tape is
the only to watch this gem for the moment,It has a fairly decent
picture and sound quality but (excuse the pun) I'm itching to get
my hands on the dvd when it finally comes out.