DANGEROUS JOURNEY
(United Artists)
PART from a slight feeling of irritation at the beginning | and end caused by the proprietary note in the American com-
mentator’s voice when referring to "Our boys" and-"Our war effort," I fourid this travelogue feature very interesting. So should anybody who has a taste for the bizarre, the abnormal, and the sensational. In fact, the attempt: to tie the picture up with the war by suggesting that the weird scenes in it will be commonplace sights to Allied soldiers in their travels round the globe is pretty far-fetched. I don’t suppose many of them have visited the seven-foot Watusi_ tribesmen and seen them "cutting a rug" in their tribal dances; or have ‘taken part in a wild elephant hunt; have been in a boat race with the Intha of Burma,
who paddle with their feet; or have been privileged to see a Burmese priestess kiss a huge King Cobra three times on the snoot. This kissing sequence has got all Hollywood fade-outs licked for thrills if not for sex-appeal. And if you want to know where jitterbug music originated I am now in a position to tell you. Obviously with the Watusi of Central Africa.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 17
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200DANGEROUS JOURNEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 17
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