John Huston - 1953
Clearly a satire, edited quickly with almost a Wellesian verve of extreme framings heights and blocky expressionist shadows. Something if the 'Journey Into Fear'.
As an exploration of colonialism, capitalism, bourgeois complacency, it is direct and rather good and cutting at times. Perhaps there's not a lot beneath the surface, but that surface does a lot. It is pbvious why this is a cult movie; it's silly, but also rather intelligent all the same.
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