Written by James M. Tate / 1/03/2021 / No comments / abraham sofaer , action , byron haskin , charlton heston , creature , disaster , eleanor parker , fifties , melodrama , romance , william conrad
ANTS MARCH ON MELODRMA IN BYRON HASKIN'S 'THE NAKED JUNGLE'
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| Charlton Heston & Eleanor Parker Year: 1954 Rates: *** |
No Killer Ant movie is as strange (or as lacking of ants) as Byron Haskin's THE NAKED JUNGLE, which covers over fifty-minutes of a bizarre melodrama concerning a North American plantation owner in South America, being not so welcoming and unimaginably rude to gorgeous mail-order bride Eleanor Parker...
But Charlton Heston, over-dramatic in straight-forward drama, is more natural during the 11th hour whilst attempting to thwart hordes of ants marching closer and closer home.
Haskin, fresh from WAR OF THE WORLDS, directs with a stage-play finesse as the camera glides along with the conversational "action" between the couple: while Heston fights the urge to lust for a once-married "used" beauty, she resists his manly, open-shirt arrogance. Meanwhile, chief servant Abraham Sofaer is no stranger to playing butler to a rich plantation owner with a young, lonely trophy wife since it happened the same year in ELEPHANT WALK, and both films are extremely similar: only in WALK the elephants are mentioned a few times leading up to their inevitable attack, while here the ants simply invade as if let loose by a disgruntled crew member allergic to Harlequin-style romance. Still though, somehow, THE NAKED JUNGLE flows decently enough since Haskin's beyond capable at moving humans along what's basically a losing game.
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| Abraham Sofaer and Eleanor Parker in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Charlton Heston in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Eleanor Parker in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Eleanor Parker in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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| Charlton Heston in THE NAKED JUNGLE |
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