REBELLION OF THE HANGED
(Jose Kohn-United Artists) R: 13 years and over N many ways an impressive film which might be even more so in its original Mexican, Rebellion of .the Hanged is a picture of life in a Mexican mahogany cutting camp just before the revolution of 1910-11. This English version is marred by some particularly unpleasant American voices; and some scenes, especially those dealing with the lusts of the American bosses, seem rather melodramatic. Nevertheless, my overall impression is that Alfredo B. Crevenna, who made the film from a book by B. Traven (author of The Treasure of Sierra Madre), has tried to present an honest picture of the lot of men no better off than slaves. The "hanged" are the timber-cutters who are hanged by their wrists as punishment-by no means the only sadistic cruelty encountered in this stark film. The only player well known in New Zealand is Pedro Armendariz, who gives a fine performance as a farmer tricked into going to the camp with his two children and his sister. The photography, by Gabriel Figueroa, is generally striking.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 16
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183REBELLION OF THE HANGED New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 16
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