Dave in Toronto wrote:
>"End of the River" - Now that's a weird movie even by P and P
>standards. Their names are up there as producers but I have a feeling
>they didn't have too much to do with it or they washed their hands of
>it part way through. Poorly paced and very drab looking. One of
>those "Who cares?" movies.
I haven't seen it, but probably you are right. Powell himself didn't
like it. Quote: "It looked a good proposition, but it wasn't. Derek, as
a director, was dull, and to be dull with the river Amazon as your
backdrop, is to be very dull, indeed."
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/484481/index.html
>By the way the review here - http://www.britmovie.co.uk/directors/m_powell/filmography/040.html
>- says it's based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson - imdb says the
>source is a novel by Desmond Holdridge. Who's right? Anyone know?
I think it's Holdridge.
Manfred |