I happen to agree w/ the other comments in general: very well made flick, excellent battle scenes, on-site cinematography, tops! You cannot go wrong w/ this. So many other movies have sprung from this one--King Solomon's Mines, Raiders, the Mummy, etc etc--but this one is by itself simply a cut above the average for the genre.
Can't go wrong with C Aubrey Smith, who was the model for those "Commodore McBragg" toons from the 60's-simply is the best. I loved those Crimean War story scenes--'...and here I am-THUD-the Pineapple!" Great stuff. You just KNOW the man was like that off-camera as well as on.
I don't have much to say bad about it-save for the way he just kinda came back and accepted his wife, despite her stabbing him in the back etc. Quite shallow etc it was as if no one there Truly understood what it was he DID in the Sudan. She wasn't what you would say worth the trouble, ya know? Heck of a movie though, certainly. ***1/2 outta ****. Nicely done.
Can't go wrong with C Aubrey Smith, who was the model for those "Commodore McBragg" toons from the 60's-simply is the best. I loved those Crimean War story scenes--'...and here I am-THUD-the Pineapple!" Great stuff. You just KNOW the man was like that off-camera as well as on.
I don't have much to say bad about it-save for the way he just kinda came back and accepted his wife, despite her stabbing him in the back etc. Quite shallow etc it was as if no one there Truly understood what it was he DID in the Sudan. She wasn't what you would say worth the trouble, ya know? Heck of a movie though, certainly. ***1/2 outta ****. Nicely done.