Word: borneo
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...picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...
...sleazy palm-leaf shacks swayed in their places. The flies were thicker, the natives were thinner; only the charring equatorial heat was the same. Nevertheless, Harry and Agnes Keith were glad to be back. Before war and Japanese prison camps, the "dirty, stinking little town" of Sandakan, British North Borneo, was home...
...Keiths went back and what they found in postwar Borneo make for a chatty, cheerful saunter through life in a jungle suburbia...
...when her husband went back to his job as director of agriculture for North Borneo, Mrs. Keith was still too weak to go. A year later, when she rejoined him, friends called her a-"poor sap." But she was determined to help "those who had saved our lives at the risk of their own." She got a quick taste of change at a stopover in Hong Kong. "The place was overflowing with Chinese gold and jewels, and the Asiatic class which these possessions now represented looked confident and opulent in contrast to the threadbare Anglo-Saxons who had only their...
...caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does its bit to pull British North Borneo out of the soup economically...