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RHINO! African melodrama as it should be done-with scenic splendor and crackling humor-tied to a timely story about a hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

RHINO! In brightest Africa, the hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive, and highly entertaining melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 9, 1964 | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...Visit is the kind of movie that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Woman Wronged | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

Flabby characterization doesn't help, but the film's compelling fault is its total lack of tension. Underneath a sometimes-bizarre exterior beats a heart of purest melodrama: will Reason and Humanity save Miller from the whirling ripsaw? The answer is really never in doubt, and melodrama without suspense is like borsht without beets...

Author: By Jeff Frackman, | Title: The Visit | 10/3/1964 | See Source »

RHINO! An African hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive and highly entertaining melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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