Cinematography:
J. Roy HuntComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Ray Corrigan, Samuel S. Hinds, Eli Mintz, Bill Wolfe, Lumsden Hare, Noble Johnson, Jim ThorpePlots(1)
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide’s daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo’s ancestor. (Bounty Films)
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King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain, and She, are the lesser-known works of turn-of-the-20th-century adventure novelist Henry Rider Haggard. "She: A History of Adventure," published in 1887, also had the following sequels "Ayesha: The Return of She" (1905), "She and Allan" (1921), and "Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed" (1923). She made her film debut with Georges Méliès in 1899 and appeared on screen a total of eleven times by 2001. So how does the first audio version, the 7th one, which followed the excellent version with Betty Blythe, stand up? Wonderfully, as a matter of fact. The framework of Ayesha's adventures is suitably updated to the 1930s, the sets are riveting, and the theme of immortality is eternal. Many of the partial details, from the spanking to the moving stone to the alter ego of the evil queen from Snow White, have great guilty pleasure potential. So who is more divine? The goddess Helen Gahagan or Helen Mack? That's easy. Gahagan hasn't acted in a film more than once, so there's an apparent mystique to this fact. Unfortunately, nothing good can be said about the other adaptations...
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