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Savage Mutiny (1953)
new reading for the 21st century
I am only voting because IMDb demands it . This short movie is jaw-droppingly naive, so much so that it is almost essential viewing for would-be movie-makers today. An entire group of people are moved from their island home so that the kindly USA can drop an atom bomb on the island( in order to benefit the cause of peace on earth and to test the effects of fallout on the flora and fauna). Jungle Jim has a plan to persuade the islanders to the mainland and is left to do, with the assistance of a female doctor, by the government agents.
The bomb will be dropped and the natives can move back in " within a few days" . They are even aero dusted with contaminated dust by the bad guys to make them a bit sick at one point.
Just try reading , for example: Green-Peace in the role of the opposition. Some of the detail and casting is a wonder as well. I loved the sexy dancers in the village !
McBride: The Chameleon Murder (2005)
fantasy
This is a show starts with a parrot giving evidence. So make yourself comfortable. McBride , as someone else says somewhere catches a lot of Columbo fans who like their heroes to work things out for them and generally McBride does a nice job of fulfilling the fantasy. Comparisons to Perry Mason are plentiful elsewhere but Mason is/was a fantasy hero of a different nature and pulled so many tricks in court that would not be allowed in the USA or Britain certainly. Perry Mason had pretty much the same formula every week and had one of the greatest of theme tunes which conjured up a film noir style and the heavily set Raymond Burr as Mason and his entourage followed a pattern much more so than McBride whose wooing of the sexy older woman, D.S. Roberta Hansen, is entertaining and more of its time than the worshipful Della Street in Perry Mason. It's all feel-good and make believe so enjoy the parrot scene ( is it a parrot? ) it is hilarious and comes close to another albeit more famous sketch with a parrot from a certain British comic troupe.