Elephant Boy (1937) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch

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  Elephant Boy (1937) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch  British Film, Adventure Venice Film Festival, 1937- 2 wins including: Best Director National Board of Review, 1937- Winner: Top Foreign Films Long before CGI could conjure up entire jungles at the click of a button, cinema had to rely on the real deal. In 1937, Robert Flaherty and Zoltan Korda teamed up to deliver Elephant Boy , an adventure film that stands as a fascinating bridge between raw documentary realism and classic Hollywood storytelling. More on Wikipedia or Mubi The Raw Magic of Elephant Boy  The movie is adapted from "Toomai of the Elephants," a short story out of Rudyard Kipling’s iconic The Jungle Book . It follows a young, spirited Indian boy who dreams of becoming a great hunter, just like his father and grandfather before him. When a massive elephant hunt is organized, Toomai sets out to prove his worth, forming an unbreakable bond with a legendary, giant elephant named Kala Nag. W...
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Balarassa (1951)
Spanish Film, Crime, Drama
English title: Reckless

Official Selection

Reckless (Spanish: Balarrasa) is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. An agreeable flick showing a sour social denounce adding the typical message , as it results to be a spiritual film and full of good feeling, touching sacrifice and dramatic relationship among family members. Narrated through a long flashback by the missionary Javier Mendoza/Fernando Fernán Gómez in the middle of a snow storm in Alaska, it is one of the great successes of post-war Spanish cinema for mixing with some skill a war story with a religious one within a serial style that contains a strong moralizing charge. Its success conditions the existence of politically religious cinema written and produced by Vicente Escrivá and directed by Rafael Gil during the first half of the fifties. In the movie stands out a great main and support cast with plenty of familiar faces giving acceptable interpretations

Javier is used to make the best of his military life. When a companion is killed in his place, he makes up his mind and enters religious life. Reencountering his rich and spoiled family will show him that not all the battles were fought during the war. More on Wikipedia or Mubi 

Cannes Film Festival, 1951- Official Selection

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