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A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
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- TriviaOne of the first films (if not the first) to be shot using Panavision's Auto Panatar lenses that eliminated what was called "anamorphic mumps" in the wide-screen CinemaScope process where in close-ups an actor's face would widen horizontally. This innovation won Panavision its first Academy Award. Each lens cost $11,000 ($94,000 in 2017).
- GoofsSouth American Indians having driven Rima up a tall tree set it on fire and flames are seen in the tree tops but only the tree and brush at its base burns, not the rest of the forest.
- Quotes
Nuflo: When I was a young man I fell in with bad companions. By the time I was 40 I had sunk to ranging the countryside with a gang of ruffians. Oh, I flattered myself I was the least offensive of the lot. I never killed anyone, never stole - except to live.
Abel: Did you steal the gold from Riolama?
Nuflo: It was to be simple theft and flight. It was a massacre. They killed... they killed, and pillaged, and raped...
- ConnectionsReferenced in Forecast (1945)
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Read the book instead
I read this book in 8th grade English & loved it. After we finished reading the book, we watched the movie and I was thoroughly disappointed. They completely changed the ending, turning it into a sappy, everything's right in the world, Hollywood ending instead of the tragic ending of the book. Happy endings are great, but if you're going to make a movie from a book you should at least try to stay as close to the story line as possible. I'm normally a big Audrey Hepburn fan, but even she couldn't salvage this one for me. Don't waste your time with this movie-read the book instead.
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- keerstin
- Jun 29, 2001
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- Tropenglut
- Filming locations
- Kaieteur Falls, Guyana(Background for opening credits)
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- Budget
- $3,288,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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