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Director: | Clint Eastwood |
Studio: | Warner Home Video |
Producer: | Clint Eastwood, David Valdes, Stanley Rubin |
Writer: | Burt Kennedy, James Bridges, Peter Viertel |
Rated: | PG |
Date Added: | 2011-12-10 |
ASIN: | B003AWRMCY |
UPC: | 0883929107964 |
Price: | $12.98 |
Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Release: | 2010-06-01 |
Location: | 0981 |
Duration: | 112 |
Picture Format: | Widescreen |
Aspect Ratio: | 1.77:1 |
Sound: | Dolby |
Languages: | English, French, Portuguese |
Subtitles: | Cantonese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Taiwanese Chinese |
Summary: Unjustly overlooked in Clint Eastwood's oeuvre, this critical examination of the hubris of machismo predated "Unforgiven" by just two years and meditated on similar themes. Eastwood plays a macho movie director, in Africa ostensibly to shoot a movie, but more pressingly (to his mind, anyway) to bag an elephant. The story is based loosely on the true story of John Huston's behavior while making "The African Queen"; Eastwood's Huston imitation (the character here is named Wilson) will no doubt prove distracting to some--he drawls out vowels to the point of breaking--but he captures both the arrogance of and the magnetic force behind the man. The film boasts splendid visuals by cinematographer Jack Green, and the final scene--and Eastwood's performance therein--is nearly heartbreaking. "--David Kronke"
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