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List Price: $7.98 Our Price: $7.98 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : October, 1952 DVD Release : 21 January, 2003 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Incredible |
| ...in more ways than one.
A good buddy and I used to use the line "Ramar have good medicine" at least 30 years ago. Mind you, even then the series was ANCIENT, and we hadn't seen it for 20 years (hence our amusing reference to it). I ran across this DVD and was amazed. This stuff was released on DVD??? I couldn't resist. It really is entertaining. But it has a slightly frightening side: Some of us were brought up with this stuff! Its racist implications really stand out to me. I hope those "implications" don't have too lasting an effect on us but I can't help but think they do. The white doctor comes to the "savages," a word used constantly and in a completely nonchalant manner, as if there aren't implications to the word. The "natives" are hopelessly ingorant, superstitious, and the white men aren't hoodwinked by such savage nonsense. Now, granted, the white men may be evil, thieves and con men. But they're not as savage and ignorant as the natives. (Oh, and expect to see some of the same "native" faces over and over.) I really don't want to get "PC" here, but, really, you have to see the series to imagine it. Aside from that, it's a great view on how "we" saw the world in the early 1950s, (when the old "Amos and Andy" series was still being telecast too.) There's not a whole lot spent on special effects, or on good scriptwriting. But it's fun. Indeed, it could serve as a great lesson on how we saw the world back then. It's a lot of fun though too. Watch it and get hopelessly nostalgic! |
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