This is a rather shocking but amazing adventure set on the plantation of a British rubber manufacturer dealing with terrorism through the bandits who roam the wilderness. Yes, they use the word terrorist, and there's even a little child found with a grenade attached to them! The basic story surrounds the plantation owner (Jack Hawkins) and his wife (Claudette Colbert) whose marriage has been crumbling. She's preparing to take their young son to England to finish his education and possibly never return, even though she was born there. The action surrounds their last day together, a mixture of terror and excitement, seemingly filmed on location to similar looking land.
I really feel the terror that peace living people must feel every day not knowing if a suicide bomber is nearby. Colbert has several close calls, one that had me nervous in anticipation. Colbert as usual is spot on fantastic, a combination of dignified strength and womanly vulnerability, while Hawkins mixes stubborn determination in with the fortitude of a revolutionary war general determined to save his fort. There's an exciting battle between a mongoose and a cobra, slow moving tank rides in the countryside where suspicions of approaching danger even disguised as a funeral procession are presented rivetingly. If you want to see Colbert living quite a different life rather than her wacky screwball heroines and loving, long suffering mothers, take a look at this along with two war dramas, "So Proudly We Hail" and "Three Came Home".
I really feel the terror that peace living people must feel every day not knowing if a suicide bomber is nearby. Colbert has several close calls, one that had me nervous in anticipation. Colbert as usual is spot on fantastic, a combination of dignified strength and womanly vulnerability, while Hawkins mixes stubborn determination in with the fortitude of a revolutionary war general determined to save his fort. There's an exciting battle between a mongoose and a cobra, slow moving tank rides in the countryside where suspicions of approaching danger even disguised as a funeral procession are presented rivetingly. If you want to see Colbert living quite a different life rather than her wacky screwball heroines and loving, long suffering mothers, take a look at this along with two war dramas, "So Proudly We Hail" and "Three Came Home".