Entertaining but often preposterous story about doctor George Montgomery leading a bunch of political prisoners, children and other natives through the jungles of the Philippines and dealing with natural and unnatural obstacles, including disease, famine and headhunters. He's been sent to a prison for political beliefs considered dangerous to the government, and finds out that the head of the prison (Gilbert Roland) is determined to help the prisoners become free. It's like an exodus of hundreds of people up the mountains, across rivers and through the jungle to get them to safety.
Colorful photography makes a major impact as this is a film that cries for color, but the characters remain far too clean looking for the film to be entirely believable. For the most part, everyone on this journey gets along far too well. The children (particularly one little boy with a huge hog for a pet) are adorable, the kind that melts your heart by looking up with those big inquisitive eyes. Montgomery and Roland are good as the heroic leads, with Nico Minardos quite villainous. Anyone who throws food in a bunch of hungry kid's faces and tells them that's all they're getting to eat gets an automatic boo from me. A fine adventure, but I never once doubted that they wouldn't get through the jungle.
Colorful photography makes a major impact as this is a film that cries for color, but the characters remain far too clean looking for the film to be entirely believable. For the most part, everyone on this journey gets along far too well. The children (particularly one little boy with a huge hog for a pet) are adorable, the kind that melts your heart by looking up with those big inquisitive eyes. Montgomery and Roland are good as the heroic leads, with Nico Minardos quite villainous. Anyone who throws food in a bunch of hungry kid's faces and tells them that's all they're getting to eat gets an automatic boo from me. A fine adventure, but I never once doubted that they wouldn't get through the jungle.