I just saw this and I have to say it is perhaps the best documentary I have ever seen. The story is so unbelievable and the drama so big that it's hard to describe! This is one of the best "blind buys" I have ever done of a DVD.
/Mikkel
Leave it to adventurers like Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack to bring us something that literally has to be seen to be believed. The trek of 50,000 people and half a million herd along with the rest of their belongings across the terrain they conquered...it's a pretty amazing story. I loved it.
"I know you're in there, Fagerstrom!"-Conan O'Brien
Truly fascinating...unbelievable...a great unusual documentary
shareI agree. It's almost hypnotic in the way it catches you up in the drama of these people battling to get their herds to grass. And the photography is just beautiful.
One of my favorite documentaries.
I felt as if I was transported back into time, to a period when man was in transition between surviving and becoming civilized. The amount of endurance required by these people was amazing. Crossing a mountain pass with a herd of sheep barefoot is not something I would attempt. M.C. Cooper did an amazing job portraying their stuggles. One of the best documentaries I have seen.
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In the documentary about Messrs. Schoedsack and Cooper, that comes with the 70th anniversary DVD of KING KONG, a tape recorded interview with Schoedsack is aired. In which, he bad-mouths the woman, Marguerite Harrison who funded the expedition, as not doing "a damn thing" during it. Of course, in all fairness to him, he was totally unaware--at the time of the expedition or afterwards--that Ms. Harrison was secretly spying for the U.S. government!
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