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...East of Borneo (Universal) is a combination of The Green Goddess and Trader Horn, of Hollywood and the Malay peninsula. Its heroine (Rose Hobart) is imperiled by the lechery of a brownskin potentate in silk leggings and by the lions, tigers, leopards, boa constrictors, crocodiles and monkeys of a jungle which seems to be more densely populated than a stadium football game and to contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates...
...producers of East of Borneo, instead of sending the whole cast to location east of Borneo, despatched cameramen who photographed, apparently, the entire bestial population of the Malay peninsula. These shots are interspersed with closeups of the actors in a property jungle at Universal City and with a few glimpses of the more docile snakes and crocodiles in the Universal menagerie. Although to a blind-folded spectator the animal noises would be indistinguishable from those of a defective steam radiator, they are effective and even terrifying when combined with good photography. Morbid shots: a man being devoured by alligators...
...Murders in the Rue Morgue. Largest mammoth ever used in cinemas was Universal's Charlie, an agreeable and intelligent elephant who helped build Universal City by carrying lumber. Charlie was chloroformed and shot when he went wild and tried to kill his trainer. For East of Borneo it was necessary to hire extra alligators from California zoos. Some twelve actors lost fingers or toes while the picture was being made...
Dutch Empire, Quiet, matronly Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands refuses to assume the style of "Empress," but she has, in Sumatra, Java and Borneo an empire 31 times as large as her tiny kingdom, one-fourth the size of India and containing 40,892,000 subjects of her modest crown...
...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...