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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The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
American Film, Comedy, Western, Drama

 Official Selection

The Sun Shines Bright is a 1953 American comedy-drama Western film directed by John Ford, based on material taken from a series of Irvin S. Cobb "Judge Priest" short stories featured in The Saturday Evening Post in the 1910s, specifically "The Sun Shines Bright", "The Mob from Massac", and "The Lord Provides". Ford had adapted some of the same material in 1934 in his film Judge Priest. That film originally had a scene depicting an attempted lynching of Poindexter (and Priest’s condemnation of the act), but it was cut by 20th Century Fox. The omission was one of the reasons Ford loosely reshaped the Cobb stories two decades later as The Sun Shines Bright for Republic Pictures. This time including Judge Priest's defusing of the mob determined to lynch a young black character named Woodford. In both films, Stepin Fetchit plays the part of Judge Priest's assistant, Poindexter. In later years, the film was championed by critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum and Dave Kehr, who called it “a masterpiece”. Ford himself had often cited The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite among all his films. However, Peter Bogdanovich, who knew Ford, surmised that the director's "perverse enthronement" of it as one of his very best was largely based on its general dismissal by critics and audiences. It had little to do with the merits of the film itself.

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William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values. More on Wikipedia or Mubi 

Cannes Film Festival, 1953- Official Selection
Viennale, 2004, 2010, 2014- Official Selection
BAFTA Awards, 1954- Nominee: Best Film from any Source
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