rec.arts.movies.past-films

Jim Beaver wrote:
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>>"The Red Tent" (aka Krasnaya palatka) (Italo-Russian 1969)
>>
>>Little known film of the "Italia" airship quest to land at the North Pole.
>>Turned into a
>>disaster when the airship crashes in the Arctic. General Umberto Nobile
>>is held
>>accountable for the disaster by the Mussolini government.
>>
>>Russian-Italian co production. Fine cast: Sean Connery, Peter Finch,
>>Claudia Cardinale,
>>Hardy Kruger, Mario Adorf, gorgeous color photography. Eminently
>>watchable.
>>Goes into the "Exploration" drawer along with "The Last Place on Earth",
>>"South"
>>"Scott of the Antarctic". A keeper.
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> I feel much the same way. It's not remotely as engaging as LAST PLACE ON
> EARTH or SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC, on one hand, (in the same way I don't find
> spaghetti Westerns as engaging as Boetticher's stuff), but it tugs at my
> memory and there are unforgettable moments in it. One crane shot in
> particular is terribly affecting, and the (spoiler avoidance) special use of
> a chunk of ice in one scene I find terribly moving. I like Connery and
> Kruger in it a lot, too.
>
> I can't turn this one off, on the rare times it shows up on cable.
>
> Jim Beaver
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I like Hardy Kruger. I am trying to find "Junge Adler" (Germany -1944)
with a very young Eberhart (Hardy) Kruger as Baumchen.

Marv