Unique & Great Movie if you like Burt Lancaster at his athletic finest...I did...OK, flimsy/iffy plot & but realistic to many of us who've never gotten to the South Pacific...Beautiful photography...In line with the masses' attitudes towards South Pacific natives at the time...They were still exotic...Although, this movie was filmed during thermo-nuclear tests in the South Pacific, especially by France & America...
It shows the vast gap between two cultures & their inevitable clash...1st world capitalism greed versus 4th world innocents in their belief in the value of an absurd commodity...Whatever works to whoever's favor, as Burt's character proves...As his majesty, O'Keefe is humbled?, as he acquires his maiden (a beautiful, young, English turned native chick)...I like this movie...
If you really think about it, given Burt Lancaster's life long & uncompromising liberal stance, then this movie is right up his alley as a statement during the McCarthy era political times...As a reality check in many ways, to those who might use the ultimate weapon of destruction, and the hell with anyone else who might be only able to kneel naked before their particular God...
Long live Burt with his great physique as a younger man, and his forward looking political views which will last forever...Just like his unique films...
It shows the vast gap between two cultures & their inevitable clash...1st world capitalism greed versus 4th world innocents in their belief in the value of an absurd commodity...Whatever works to whoever's favor, as Burt's character proves...As his majesty, O'Keefe is humbled?, as he acquires his maiden (a beautiful, young, English turned native chick)...I like this movie...
If you really think about it, given Burt Lancaster's life long & uncompromising liberal stance, then this movie is right up his alley as a statement during the McCarthy era political times...As a reality check in many ways, to those who might use the ultimate weapon of destruction, and the hell with anyone else who might be only able to kneel naked before their particular God...
Long live Burt with his great physique as a younger man, and his forward looking political views which will last forever...Just like his unique films...