Green Mansions
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
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"Colorful locales, kitschy production design and a nice stroke of sado-masochism go a long way in making this obscure gem a guilty pleasure of jungle-lust adventure. Mel Ferrer directs the story like a comics classic, with his then-wife Audrey Hepburn playing a jungle girl with her usual Givenchy class, and Tony Perkins as a young Indiana-Jones type. Hokey and utterly inappropriate, but still enjoyably offbeat, especially when Perkins croons a love song. The other cast members fare much better: with Lee J. Cobb overacting perfectly as Audrey's old man; Sessue Hayakawa, laconic and petul..."
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First film to be shot using Panavision's Auto Panatar lenses that eliminated what was called "anamorphic mumps" in the wide-screen CinemaScope process where in close-ups an actor's face would widen horizontally. This innovation won Panavision its first Academy Award. Each lens cost $11,000 ($94,000 in 2017).
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A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.