Saturday, July 11, 2009

Timbuktu (1958)

United Artists
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
My rating: 2 stars out of 4

Lackluster French Legion yarn set in North Africa. It has none of the directorial flair usually associated with Tourneur, despite ample opportunity afforded by the desert locales. Victor Mature and George Dolenz as the male leads are simply flat, and the usually perky Yvonne De Carlo can't save it alone. Still, some nice scenes featuring tarantulas and a shootout in a minaret.

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