Tom Dooley - Hero of the Green Hell

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Movie
German title Tom Dooley - Hero of the Green Hell
Original title Tumulto de Paixoes
Country of production USA , Brazil , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Zygmunt Sulistrowski
script Zygmunt Sulistrowski
production Zygmunt Sulistrowski
Artur Brauner
Mário Aldrá
music Enrico Simonetti
Gerhard Becker using the song " Tom Dooley "
camera Alexander Orban
cut Ikswort Silus
Walter Rosenick
occupation

Tom Dooley - Hero of the Green Hell (German alternative title: Fluch des Amazonas , original title: Tumulto de Paixoes ) is a US-American-Brazilian-German feature film from 1959 by Zygmunt Sulistrowski , who also wrote the script and co-produced the film. The book is based on a story by Anita Manville . The leading roles are cast with John Sutton , Richard Olizar and Gina Albert . The film premiered in July 1958 at the Berlin International Film Festival . The work was first shown in German cinemas on November 27, 1959.

action

The well-known American writer John Morgan desperately wants to get personal impressions of the Amazon for his new book . Most of all he would like to join the expedition that the famous Brazil expert Tom Dooley is currently planning, but he cannot find the adventurer. When Morgan starts talking to the enterprising girl Anna Martin, she tells him that she knows Tom Dooley's whereabouts. But she would only lead him to him if she was allowed to join the expedition. And so it happens.

Tom Dooley leads his companions to a remote fishing village where a folk festival is being celebrated. He doesn't want to take John and Ann further inland, but the girl manages to persuade Tom to do so. In a paddle boat you go up the Amazon . The longer the journey, the more the two men desire the girl. This fact leads to great tension, which leads to several accidents. The worst part is that the participants in the expedition lose their boat and have to move on on foot. One day, Ann's life is in danger while taking a bath in the Amazon. At the last minute, Tom Dooley manages to save the beauty. Morgan sees his rival carrying the naked Ann ashore. He misunderstands the situation and freaks out. The result is a heated argument between the men.

The longer the expedition lasts, the more Ann falls in love with Tom Dooley. But she tries very hard not to show her feelings in order not to irritate Morgan, to whom she already said yes on the way, even more.

Another three days separate the expedition members from their destination, an Indian village. Morgan is bitten by a poisonous spider. Soon the writer is so affected by the fever that he can no longer walk himself. Tom Dooley has no choice but to drag him. Completely exhausted, the three finally reach the Indian village. The medicine man of the tribe succeeds in healing the sick.

After studying the customs and habits of the natives, Morgan plans to return to Rio with Ann on a rented boat to be married there. But Ann realizes that her real place can only be at the side of Tom Dooley. So Morgan sets off on his own.

additions

The music was composed by Enrico Simonetti and Gerhard Becker . They used the well-known song " Tom Dooley ", but with a different text. The outdoor shots were taken at the original locations in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso , in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre as well as in the Amazon region near Belém .

criticism

The lexicon of international films doesn't believe in the film at all. It draws the following conclusion: “A pseudo-documentary film reminiscent of American comic strips about a trip to the Amazon in which snakes, crocodiles and love are fought. Noticeably primitive, also in the erotic part, and downright laughably adventurous. "

source

Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by the publisher of the same name, Mannheim, without a number

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3848