55 Years!!!



Has nobody deemed this film worthy of comment in the last 55 years?
I saw it in the cinema when it was first released, and a couple of days ago it was shown on t/v as a double-bill with "Secret of the Incas" (Heston) from around the same period.
I recorded them both and watched them in the spirit that I did all those years ago. Still great fun.
Universal-International certainly ruled the roost in those days for beautifully photographed Technicolor adventure yarns, particularly Westerns (sorry about that 'plane crash Audie!).
There must be someone out there as old as me, with fond memories of these films - surely?

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OK - I've just realised that "secret of the Incas" was made by Paramount and not Universal-International, but still great stuff.
I am in li'l ol' England after all, so what do we know?
Lots, actually!

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Older than dirt, are ye?

Time is the only true purgatory.

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I thought it was a bit of a stinker. Even Ryan couldn't do much with the lousy and overextended script.

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I thought it was terrific. The colour photography is outstanding and Julie Adams looks bloody amazing, but why she married that bloated bugga Raymond Burr is anybody's guess. I'm sure I saw it on a Channel 5 double bill in England with "Secret of the Incas" a few years ago ....or do you mean on a double bill at the flicks?

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"...they're gonna call me "Populating Pappa ". Hard to believe they let that one past in '52 !!

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OK. Dennis Weaver made his movie debut in this film and had a juicy role. Also in it was his Gunsmoke star James Arness. Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith show is in it. John McIntire who replace Ward Bond on Wagon Train. Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr plays a heavy bad guy. Very interesting cast

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