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L Legend of the Lost (1957)
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Legend of the Lost (1957)

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Country: US
Technical: col/scope 107m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis:

An idealistic treasure-seeker in Timbuktu hires an American to act as guide across the desert, and a prostitute follows on in the hope of redemption.

Review:

Star melodrama with all the desert-trek, treasure-hunt clichés in the manual and a plodding path towards its predictable climactic twist in which past events are almost repeated. Leads are cast according to type (decidedly, the studios did not know what else to do with Loren), and Jack Cardiff's cinematography makes a signal contribution to the handsome production. The locations were shot in Libya, and a preserved Roman site, tellingly unobscured by the ever-shifting sands, does service for the fabled lost city of the title.

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Country: US
Technical: col/scope 107m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis:

An idealistic treasure-seeker in Timbuktu hires an American to act as guide across the desert, and a prostitute follows on in the hope of redemption.

Review:

Star melodrama with all the desert-trek, treasure-hunt clichés in the manual and a plodding path towards its predictable climactic twist in which past events are almost repeated. Leads are cast according to type (decidedly, the studios did not know what else to do with Loren), and Jack Cardiff's cinematography makes a signal contribution to the handsome production. The locations were shot in Libya, and a preserved Roman site, tellingly unobscured by the ever-shifting sands, does service for the fabled lost city of the title.


Country: US
Technical: col/scope 107m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis:

An idealistic treasure-seeker in Timbuktu hires an American to act as guide across the desert, and a prostitute follows on in the hope of redemption.

Review:

Star melodrama with all the desert-trek, treasure-hunt clichés in the manual and a plodding path towards its predictable climactic twist in which past events are almost repeated. Leads are cast according to type (decidedly, the studios did not know what else to do with Loren), and Jack Cardiff's cinematography makes a signal contribution to the handsome production. The locations were shot in Libya, and a preserved Roman site, tellingly unobscured by the ever-shifting sands, does service for the fabled lost city of the title.

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