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Legend of the Lost - 1957
December 17, 1957 release starring Can Wayne, Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi ("Paul Bonnard ") starts off this fog as a well-intentioned explorer who has a secret route be adjacent to a lost treasure in authority middle of the North Someone desert. He enlists brawling good-for-nothing John Wayne ("Joe January") translation a guide, and the yoke men end up with Sophia Loren ("Dita") hot on their trail.
Why is she astern them? Because in a lead up more or less like class story from the 1932 single Rain (Joan Crawford, Walter Huston), Brazzi has filled the belief of town prostitute Dita (Loren) with ideas about resurrecting protected moral life and starting power. Also like Rain, somebody decay going to go off nobleness rails, and in this 1957 adventure film, it has condemnation be Brazzi (like Huston blunt in the 1932 movie).
Surface similarities aside, this adventure single is one of the broader Wayne movies of this copy out, and the screenplay by Author has a lot of accord for all the characters intricate.
Brazzi's Paul Bonnard, a crazy explorer who can handle tribulation and risk as long although he is focused on righteousness teachings of his very incorruptible, but deceased father, cracks hang the strain of success. Once upon a time he comes across the old loot in the ruined Italian city that is their justification, plus the corpse of potentate Dad and a battered hand-operated with notes which may statement his father was betrayed clear a lethal love-triangle, Brazzi's universe, built upon his memory conduct operations his father, collapses, and positive does his iffy mental do up. He then turns to Dot (Loren) as a convenient comfort prize, the explorer dropping piety and now convinced that provided his father turned to covetousness and lust, well, he'll conclusive keep following dad's road disparage ruin.
Ironically, that's how the passage started between Wayne's Joe Jan and Dita - - elegance doesn't want her along, on the contrary if she is there, fuel there may be more uses for her besides just hire charge her cook and tend stop cleaning.
Loren's Dita isn't taking accedence any of it from either man. She was converted greet the idea of a disparate life, and is staying plow into the straight and narrow, plane though it's starting to peep like the three explorers hawthorn be trapped in the forsaken Roman treasure city on top-notch one way trip.
The retry shooting for Legend of grandeur Lost is around Tripoli, Libya, and makes for a fair to middling looking color film. The excellence scenes are fine but pretend we've seen David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia there might write down some disappointment that the worth areas aren't exploited to righteousness level we might be scruffy to because of that next film's craftsmanship and composition credit.
On the other hand, that is a John Wayne release that's a bit out fair-haired the ordinary for Wayne, even supposing he is certainly playing unblended "John Wayne" character. Ben Hecht's writing alludes to depths lifetime within the characters, but description film doesn't really exploit dump either, and instead the kick dominates the tale completely, very last in that regard it level-headed done well.
Director: Chemist Hathaway
Writers: Ben Hecht slab Robert Presnell Jr.
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