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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 Unter den tausend Laternen (1952)
German Film, Drama, Crime
English title: Under the Thousand Lanterns

Official Selection

Under the Thousand Lanterns (German: Unter den tausend Laternen) is a 1952 French-West German crime film directed by Erich Engel and starring Michel Auclair, Gisela Trowe, and Hanna Rucker. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. It was made by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.  

 A nifty little whodunit, this film introduced the very popular and powerful melancholic waltz hit "Unter den Tausend Laterne" (Under thousand lanterns) by Michael Jary, which gave the film its unofficial title - the actual name in the opening credits is "Die Stimme des Anderen" (The voice of Another). This picture captures the mood of "European film noir" most perfectly, the cast is good and the dialog plausible. The plot: a young prima donna at a musical comedy stumbles upon murder - or is it murder? - and soon has to choose whether to blame the man she loves or to take the blame herself. Definitely worth a watch as a moody yet slow moving crime story with some good music and singing. Fortunately, no comedy involved to spoil the feeling of constant sadness and depression. More on Wikipedia or Mubi

Cannes Film Festival, 1952- Official Selection
Full Film (No sub)

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