Directed by Arch Oboler
My rating: BOMB
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Terrible movie whose only notoriety is being the first commercial 3D film of the 1950s. The title sequence may be the best part, with lettering painted on glass for added depth and African rhythms for mood. The rest is a tired story of lions terrorizing an African village where a train line is being laid. Robert Stack sleepwalks through another performance, with occasional hallucinatory outbursts that make no sense. I didn't watch it in 3D, but the effects are cheap and obvious, mostly stock footage with some branches in the foreground for depth. Whoa. The lion attacks combine footage of real lions with people wrestling with stuffed ones.
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