Madeleine Carroll Steams Up The Jungle With Doug Fairbanks Jr.

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden - 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA

Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Preston in North West Mounted Police (1940)

Carole Lombard and William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)

Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters in The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Madeleine Carroll in Safari (1940)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Madeleine Carroll

Tullio Carminati

Delmer Daves

Paul Hervey Fox

Harry Hervey

Millionaire Baron de Courtland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Ba...

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Safari

Bwana Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. didn&apos;t think much of Safari as a film, describing it as a routine action programmer in his memoir Salad Days. He did however like the Hollywood karma of getting Madeline Carroll finally after losing her to Ronald Colman in The Prisoner Of Zenda.

Safari is one of those pale imitation films of some better jungle films and Fairbanks himself is a cut rate Hemingwayesque action figure who coincidentally fought in the Spanish Civil War. Carroll in fact lost her fiancé in the same war, but now she&apos;s accompanying titled no account count Tullio Carminati on Safari. Carminati is looking to make her his trophy countess and he&apos;s a man to the manor born and used to getting his way.

Mentioning the politics her makes me wonder why that aspect of Safari was not further developed. Had it been Safari would have been a better film.

Also the natives weren&apos;t exactly treated with any respect. Fairbanks refers to the native bearers by the names of Snow White&apos;s 7 Dwarfs I guess so he and the other whites don&apos;t have to remember their given African names. It certainly doesn&apos;t play well today.

And even in all that tropic heat Madeline Carroll&apos;s porcelain blond beauty shines.

I&apos;d skip Safari unless you&apos;re a big fan of the stars.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. didn't think much of Safari as a film, describing it as a routine action programmer in his memoir Salad Days. He did however like the Hollywood karma of getting Madeline Carroll finally after losing her to Ronald Colman in The Prisoner Of Zenda.

Safari is one of those pale imitation films of some better jungle films and Fairbanks himself is a cut rate Hemingwayesque action figure who coincidentally fought in the Spanish Civil War. Carroll in fact lost her fiancé in the same war, but now she's accompanying titled no account count Tullio Carminati on Safari. Carminati is looking to make her his trophy countess and he's a man to the manor born and used to getting his way.

Mentioning the politics her makes me wonder why that aspect of Safari was not further developed. Had it been Safari would have been a better film.

Also the natives weren't exactly treated with any respect. Fairbanks refers to the native bearers by the names of Snow White's 7 Dwarfs I guess so he and the other whites don't have to remember their given African names. It certainly doesn't play well today.

And even in all that tropic heat Madeline Carroll's porcelain blond beauty shines.

I'd skip Safari unless you're a big fan of the stars.

Millionaire Baron de Courtland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.

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