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Post by OldAussie on Jul 18, 2020 7:12:43 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jul 18, 2020 16:01:03 GMT
The uber-example for the Hollywood safari movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 18, 2020 16:05:43 GMT
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 18, 2020 23:12:56 GMT
Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd aka Flight of the Eagle (1982) Sweden. Dir. Jan Troell. A fascinating beautifully filmed adventure. A true story of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. An expedition in which he hoped to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon... With a commanding lead performance from Max von Sydow, he stars as Salomon August Andrée the Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 18, 2020 23:51:38 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 19, 2020 16:44:43 GMT
The Road to El DoradoTwo swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado. The kid's toys (Burger King ?) and the IMDb trivia were (imo) better than the film !
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 19, 2020 22:03:07 GMT
Russian adventurer & explorer Vladimir Arsenyev wrote of his expeditions (1902-07) to the uncharted wilderness of Russia's Far East. The first to document much of Siberia's unique flora & fauna, Arsenyev also encountered native ethnic peoples & described with fascinating accounts their primitive lifestyles. The intrepid Russian met a Nanai trapper and hunter Dersu Uzala on his journeys, joining as a guide the two became close companions. Vladimir Arsenyev's book Dersu Uzala tributes his expedition companion. Two excellent CLASSIC films have been adapted from the book... Dersu Uzala (1961) Soviet film directed by Agasi Babayan and more widely known the 1975 Soviet/Japanese production from Akira Kurosawa which won the 1976 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film... Historical footage of the Expedition...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 19, 2020 22:49:05 GMT
Viva l'Italia!, aka Garabaldi (1961) Italian historical drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The dynamic epic tells of Italy's historical past of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Italy's national hero he lead a military campaign, famously known as the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860, conquering Sicily and Naples... Roberto Rossellini said of this film: 'Of all my films, I'm proudest of Viva L'Italia. I consider it important as a work of research, the most carefully done of all my films.'
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 19, 2020 22:57:27 GMT
an aside re: Garibaldi, manfromplanetxThe inventor Antonio Meucci employed Garibaldi in his candle factory on Staten Island. (The cottage on Staten Island where he stayed is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is preserved as the Garibaldi Memorial.) In April 1851 he left New York with his friend Carpanetto for Central America, where Carpanetto was establishing business operations.... Dad used to show me the Garibaldi House but it never seemed to be open when we were there. I had no idea who Garibaldi was, but the name sounded cool!
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Post by politicidal on Jul 20, 2020 17:32:32 GMT
Beyond Mombasa (1956) - Starring Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, and Christopher Lee as prospectors looking for gold in Kenya. Mogambo (1953) - John Ford romantic adventure starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 21, 2020 0:12:00 GMT
Hans Staden (c. 1525 – c. 1576) was a German soldier and explorer who voyaged to South America in the middle of the sixteenth century. Enlisting as a volunteer on a 1549 expedition to Río de la Plata. He would finally make it to the continent in 1552, having survived two shipwrecks. While on a hunting and mercenary expedition, Staden was captured by natives belonging to the Tupinambá people, rivals of an enemy group the Tupinikin people... Eventually returning to Europe, Staden wrote of his exciting expeditions and remarkable adventures. His book, "True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America" (1557) details his capture and accounts of living with the tribes & acting as a go between. His books became an international best sellers. Two excellent films have been adapted from his writings. Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês , How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971) Brazil. Dir Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Almost all of the dialogue in this classic film was written in the Tupi language. The actors and actresses portraying the Tupinambas wear historically correct attire, not much... Hans Staden (1999) Brazil/Portugal. Dir. Luís Alberto Pereira A dramatically filmed biographical film gives a fascinating historical insight...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 21, 2020 0:57:08 GMT
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain. Saw it on Broadway and only recently found that it had been filmed with a role switherooo.! "Christopher Plummer had played Pizarro in the 1965 Broadway run of the play; he was asked by Robert Shaw to sign on to the film as Atahualpa. Plummer drew inspiration for his own performance from David Carradine's stage depiction of the Inca."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 25, 2020 4:10:27 GMT
The Adventures of TintinIntrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 25, 2020 5:13:06 GMT
How about The Professionals?
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 25, 2020 18:51:14 GMT
I found this while surfing Youtube and saw Gibson Gowland in the cast list. Except for Greed and a small role in Phantom of the Opera, I'd never seen Gowland in anything else. Got curious and downloaded it. Wasn't sure what to expect, but considering his burly frame, I though he might sound like Wallace Beery. Much to my surprise, his voice was unusually high pitched. It's an amazing movie, shot in the frozen north with breathtaking photography and a narrative as uncompromising as the frozen terrain at the Arctic Circle. From the IMDb synopsis: A surprising moment in Cinderella Man. Why, with all the contemporary movie posters they might have chosen, did they come up with S.O.S. Iceberg, and then spell it wrong?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 25, 2020 21:58:51 GMT
On a naval expedition to Antarctica, three men and reporter Maggie Hathaway crash-land in a crater 1000 m below sea level. There, they encounter steamy tropical forest, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and human footprints, as Maggie's clothes become more and more abbreviated.
Svengoolie tonight ! Edit: and quite quite awfully bad ... but not bad enough to be good !
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 25, 2020 22:36:17 GMT
A cycle of inspired cinematic snow beast expedition films, followed on from the publication of sensational photographs from mountaineer Eric Shipton's 1951 Himalayan expedition. The famous shots showed mysteriously large footprints the expedition found in the snow at Mount Everest . in Himalayan folklore, the Yeti is a monstrous, ape like creature. The films vary greatly in quality, all feature expeditions trekking into the mountains searching for the elusive creature... The Japanese film 獣人雪男 Jū Jin Yuki Otoko Beast Man (1955) Ishirō Honda, not to be confused with the re-edited American version Half Human (1958), was suddenly pulled from distribution soon after release. The studio wished to avoid any controversy over the negative manner in which the native Burakumin are portrayed, as inbred mutant savages. Kihachi Okamoto contributed as assistant director, it is the superior Yeti expedition film having great depth to the story, the best effects & beast... Only available to view at select festival screenings in the years following release, the film is available from black market sites unfortunately all these prints ? have a time stamp running at the very top center of frame, but that can be overcome with a dark cloth covering ... The Snow Creature (1954) USA directed by W. Lee Wilder (brother of Billy) Man Beast (1956) USA directed by Jerry warren The Abominable Snowman (1957) British film directed by Val Guest
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Post by london777 on Jul 26, 2020 13:44:09 GMT
Northwest Passage (1940) dir: King Vidor is based upon Kenneth Roberts' novel about the mid-C18 exploration to find out if the fabled Northwest Passage (a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans) existed . Except that the film is misnamed. It only covers the early chapters of the book, in which Spencer Tracy and his merry men fight Native Americans and French, comparatively speaking on their own doorstep and thousands of miles from the Pacific. Only at the very end of the film do they set off on the titular expedition. This first part was a commercial success, so I guess WWII stymied production of the rest of the novel? Can any of you film historians confirm this?
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Post by dagoldenage on Jul 30, 2020 15:38:01 GMT
Any version of King Solomon's Mines.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 17, 2020 7:54:35 GMT
Northwest Passage (1940) Thanks l ondon777 ... not so much for the film but for sparking my interest & putting me on the trail of Northwest Passage expeditions. What a fascinating history of explorers & expeditions, surprising that classic film has so few accounts. Learning of Roald Amundsen leader of the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage by sea, from 1903 to 1906, lead onto another discovery, the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition of Italian explorer Umberto Nobile aboard the airship Italia. Which lead onto a great classic film discovery ! .. An outstanding historical adventure film, a Soviet/Italian co-production The Red Tent (1969) directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The film features an international cast of actors, with both an English language & Russian version, it is based on the true story of the 1928 mission to rescue Umberto Nobile and the other survivors of his doomed expedition. Told in flashback Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch) reminisces about his actions during the disastrous voyage and its aftermath. Amundsen (Sean Connery) takes part in an international rescue mission, his fate another chapter in the tragic tale ... *note... another piece of worldly wisdom following on from classic film board discussion, re Blimps, airship Italia is a semi-rigid airship, technically not a blimp, neither is a Zeppelin which has a rigid internal frame. Czech Poster Art
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