KON-TIKI
(RKO-Radio) [F old explorer Flaherty could have been aboard the Kon-Tiki, this record of the long drift from Peru to Polynesia might have been the film of a lifetime. Even without his sense of cinema, it is bound to find a place in film archives and certainly deserves a corner to itself among the year’s pictures, But it is technically disappointing. I hate to say that, for the astonishing thing is that it could have been made at all, that so much that was usable survived the scend of deep seas and the hazards of wreck. What was salvaged, however, has been stretched a little too thin to make a feature-length picture, and to get oneself properly "in the picture" it is really necessary to have read Heyerdehl, and perhaps Hesselberg. But I wouldn’t have missed seeing it, and I felt afterwards that perhaps the truth about Polynesia lay somewhere between the Pros. and the Kons.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 17
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