Monday, December 9, 2013

Kenner (1968)

MGM
Directed by Steve Sekely
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

American sailor Jim Brown in in Bombay, India, searching for a drug dealer who framed him with a boat load of heroin. He escapes the drug dealer's assassins with the help of a local Indian boy, who takes him home to recover from his injuries. Brown falls in love with the boy's mother, a dancer, but tragedy strikes before their relationship can develop. Filmed entirely on location in India, the locals are portrayed as extremely superstitious, with a reincarnated cricket figuring prominently in the plot. Brown and the Indian girl are entirely unsuited for each other and lack chemistry, spoiling the romance which takes up most of the mid section of the film.

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