Word: gemsboks
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...from heat and starvation seems remote when Susannah lazes by a fresh-water pool while Whitman strides forth fully armed, bagging big and small game with reassuring regularity. Kalahari is most effective when it shows men pushed to the last extremity, as in the brutal spectacle of a wounded gemsbok being slaughtered for food, or in Whitman's climactic hand-to-hand combat with the baboons' snarling leader. Though ferociously exciting in itself, this bout between man and beast in the wilderness only points up the failings of a movie that hasn't yet gone primitive when...
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