^ Young College Girl Chosen for Fern Role: Fairbanks 'Cable' Star Paramount Convention Wheeler 'Nut' Candidate Marxes in Tuneful Mood.City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. He didn't care about it at all." Preservation Ī print and its trailer are preserved in the Library of Congress collection, Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation. I remember George Sanders saying he held his nose every time he had to say a line. Joanie Bennett says it remains her worst movie. Leonard Maltin called it "hokey but entertaining." ĭouglas Fairbanks Jr said the film was "hell. As Vincent Price once said, 'About five of the worst pictures ever made are all in this one picture.'" The New York Times wrote, "every one keeps a stiff upper lip except Miss Bennett, who purses hers, and the youngest member of the expedition, who becomes hysterical and screams, 'Oh, the monotony of it!' Monotony, egad! What a word for the best worst picture of the year!" while The Radio Times wrote, "famously ludicrous jungle melodrama.Although capably staged in studio sets by James Whale and well enough is made unendurable by the dialogue and situations devised by former Oscar winner Frances Marion. The sets were terribly opulent, very expensive, but it had the most preposterous story." Critical reception We all adored making it because we realized there wasn't a single word in it that was real. About five of the worst pictures ever made were all in that one picture. Price called Whale "a wonderful man" but "in spite of the film's great seriousness of intent it was probably one of the funniest films ever shot anywhere in the world. At one stage the film was going to be called South of the Amazon. James Whale agreed to direct and Douglas Fairbanks and Joan Bennett were cast in the leads. Producer Harry Edington had a deal at Universal and announced it for production in April 1939. The film was based on an original story and script by Frances Marion. The Incan treasure is eventually found but the treasure-seekers, now united by a common enemy, are about to be attacked by hordes of fierce natives armed with bows and poisoned arrows. As the months pass, jealousies and tempers flare as fights break out over the woman. A beautiful woman, brought to their camp by hired bearers, has come to join her husband, a newer member of the group, who was recently killed by hostile natives. A group of adventurers journey deep into the South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure.
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