Four Frightened People

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Steve D Lame adventure film that gives no one much to do. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/04/24 Full Review Audience Member Arnold Ainger (Herbert Marshall, who lost a leg during World War I yet became one of the biggest leading men of Hollywood; he was also the star of the radio drama The Man Called X), Mrs. Mardick (Mary Boland, The Women), Stewart Corder (William Gargan, who played radio and TV detective Martin Kane) and Judy Jones (Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night) have escaped their bubonic plague-infested ship and ended up on a jungle island populated with primitive natives and wild beasts. The print ad for this had great copy: "Once…ladies and gentleman…the last remnants of civilization slipped from them with their tattered clothes…Now they were male and female battling the jungle for life…each other for love!" This is a movie that doesn't get mentioned in the films of Cecil B. DeMille all that often. This movie looks great, despite being shot on location in Hawaii. Also, while Colbert used a stand-in wearing a flesh-colored bodysuit for the waterfall scene, she was nearly nude in other moments. This was, of course, before the Hayes Code. The new Kino Lorber blu ray release of this movie features audio commentary by Nick Pinkerton and the original trailer. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Alright but no, I wouldn't watch it again. A product of the pre-code era with nudity and a married man falling for another woman. Claudette Colbert transforms from a conservative school teacher into a provocative jungle queen. Overall not DeMille's best work, a classic pre-code piece though. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member good but really different choice from director demille Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 1934, OK? Four ship passengers flee Bubonic Plague onboard. They meet Leo Carrillo, the only "Englishman" on the island they row to. The jungle awaits and they have to walk through it. Torn clothes and dangers. Three of the people have major personality changes. Claudette Colbert as a frightened schoolteacher with hair in a bun...to start with. The Four manage to survive the ordeal. One of them forces population control on a tribe that took her hostage. C. B. DeMille, but don't prejudge it by that. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member I picked up the B. DeMille collection and this 1934 movie was included. Though not as spectacular as some of his movies, it has plenty of thrills including snake attack, native attack as FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE make their way across the Malaysian Jungle. Perhaps the biggest contribution this movie makes is steriotyped sex roles, where the women are helpless and the men are boisterous. Plus, this movie strangely takes a casual attitude towards divorce, which was rare for that time period. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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