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List Price: $24.98 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1937 DVD Release : 12 January, 1999 |
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The Hurricane description The great John Ford directed this rousing 1937 adventure with such invigorating physicality that the movie is never compromised by its cornball plot. It's an island adventure from the old school of tall tales, and the title says it all--the tropical romance between native girl Dorothy Lamour and suntanned hunk Jon Hall is established simply so it can b ... review details |
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| I have always been a fan of John Ford's movies. He has a unique style of movies that are wholesome without being irrelevant. He always seems to have a major social community event such as a wedding or a funeral that helps identify the unity of the society. He often has an individual that is or becomes an outsider to that same society and, through that antagonist, we gradually discover both the positive and negative traits of each. There is always a romantic aspect and a religious aspect to the movie as well. By the time the movie has ended, we have usually discovered how the individual has succeeded or failed as well as how the society has been affected by the events in the movie. Life goes on although often a bit sadder but wiser. We, in turn, are often a bit sadder but wiser as well. Happy endings occur in Ford's movies but usually at a price.
"The Hurricane" exemplifies all of the above but with the added feature of an unusual amount of special effects. This 1937 movis brings to the screen a surprisingly effective re-enactment of a tropical typhoon. (I believe that "hurricane" is a term unique to the Atlantic Ocean and the Carribean Sea). There are times that we get an obvious glimpse of actors superimposed against the background of turmoil. However, much of the scenes are very effective and give a real sense of a powerful storm on the level of a hurricane. The waves destroy and overwhelm the small island (that suddenly becomes so small that most of the island seems to have disappeared before the storm even arrived-or did I miss something?). One soon comes to understand that stuntmen and women are filling in for the stars because these folks are dealing with some heavy waves. I guess I'd better not try top oversell the special effects but they were clearly beyond what I had expected to see in a movie made nearly 70 years ago. There is a plot to the movie and, as I suggested earlier, it follows the general guideline of a John Ford movie. The hurricane (if you will) doesn't hit until the movie is at least 4/5's completed. The film is well-directed but it is not one of Ford's best movies as far as the plot goes. It is probably his best movie as far as the special effects go. |
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