Behold — it’s Indiana Jones in embryonic form. Paramount’s South American adventure exploits Peruvian scenery and the ’50s exotica phenomenon that was the unique songstress Yma Sumac. The production receives hearty input from Charlton Heston, Nicole Maurey and Thomas Mitchell, but it’s mostly a relic today. Not because the Raiders films have stolen its thunder . . . because it’s plenty hokey, even for 1954.
Secret of the Incas
Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 154
1954 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 102 min. / Street Date August 31, 2022 / Available from [Imprint] / au 39.95
Starring: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell, Glenda Farrell, Michael Pate, Marion Ross, Leon Askin, William Henry, Kurt Katch, Yma Sumac, Booth Colman.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon, Irmin Roberts
Art Director: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen
Film Editor: Eda Warren
Original Music: David Buttolph
Written by Ranald MacDougall & Sydney Boehm, from stories by Boehm and Boehm Maximum
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Everybody loves a good...
Secret of the Incas
Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 154
1954 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 102 min. / Street Date August 31, 2022 / Available from [Imprint] / au 39.95
Starring: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell, Glenda Farrell, Michael Pate, Marion Ross, Leon Askin, William Henry, Kurt Katch, Yma Sumac, Booth Colman.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon, Irmin Roberts
Art Director: Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen
Film Editor: Eda Warren
Original Music: David Buttolph
Written by Ranald MacDougall & Sydney Boehm, from stories by Boehm and Boehm Maximum
Produced by Mel Epstein
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Everybody loves a good...
- 9/27/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
On Dec. 9, 1948, Paramount released the 88-minute Alan Ladd Western Whispering Smith. The Hollywood Reporter's original review, headlined "'Whispering' First-Rate Western Railroad Saga - Film Teeming With Realism, Activity," is below:
It has been a long time since Western filmmakers tossed together a story of old railroading, and the fact that Whispering Smith takes up this neglected bit of subject matter is but one provocative element of a first-rate drama of the plains.
The presentation of associate producer Mel Epstein not only gives the film a full quota of elegant action but offers a feast for ...
It has been a long time since Western filmmakers tossed together a story of old railroading, and the fact that Whispering Smith takes up this neglected bit of subject matter is but one provocative element of a first-rate drama of the plains.
The presentation of associate producer Mel Epstein not only gives the film a full quota of elegant action but offers a feast for ...
- 12/9/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Dec. 9, 1948, Paramount released the 88-minute Alan Ladd Western Whispering Smith. The Hollywood Reporter's original review, headlined "'Whispering' First-Rate Western Railroad Saga - Film Teeming With Realism, Activity," is below:
It has been a long time since Western filmmakers tossed together a story of old railroading, and the fact that Whispering Smith takes up this neglected bit of subject matter is but one provocative element of a first-rate drama of the plains.
The presentation of associate producer Mel Epstein not only gives the film a full quota of elegant action but offers a feast for ...
It has been a long time since Western filmmakers tossed together a story of old railroading, and the fact that Whispering Smith takes up this neglected bit of subject matter is but one provocative element of a first-rate drama of the plains.
The presentation of associate producer Mel Epstein not only gives the film a full quota of elegant action but offers a feast for ...
- 12/9/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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