Monday, January 18, 2010

Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)

Directed by Delmer Daves
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)

Old-fashioned matinee fun in glorious Technicolor. Cornel Wilde is the French servant who breaks free from his oppressive master and travels to Guatemala in search of gold. He follows a treasure map deep into the mountains and finds a primitive people living next to a blue lake, and a beautiful girl. He narrowly escapes crumbling ruins in an ancient temple, in scenes Indiana Jones stole verbatim. It's predictable, the native Guatamalan's are stiff, the romance is tepid, but it's a trip back to the golden age of Saturday afternoon at the movies.

No comments:

Post a Comment