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...Mondo Cane. Some episodes in this stomach-churning travelogue are almost Swiftian in their comment on human frailty. Others are simply funny. But the best/ worst parts provide some of the bloodiest minutes to hit the screen in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 26, 1963 | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...Mondo Cane. Some episodes in this stomach-churning travelogue are almost Swiftian in their comment on human frailty. Others are simply funny. But the best/worst parts provide some of the bloodiest minutes to hit the screen in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Mondo Cane. In this documentary of depravity, the world has gone to the dogs and the cards are stacked against human decency, all leading to the conclusion that people are no damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 12, 1963 | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...Mondo Cane. In this documentary of depravity, the world has gone to the dogs and the cards are stacked against human decency, all leading to the conclusion that people are no damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: : Apr. 5, 1963 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...Mondo Cane is Italian for "a dog's world." and this film is anything but man's best friend. The movie draws its scenes, documentary style, from every available source of contemporary bestiality and human foible, and comments on them by shocking juxtaposition. It is filmed in all-too-living color. Fast pace, sophisticated commentary and occasional hilarity mitigate its lack of taste, but most of the film is openly calculated to raise eyebrows as well as gorges. If there is a message, it is that people are no damn good. A sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beware the Dog | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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