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Only One New York is a safari through the urban jungle. It was written and faultlessly photographed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, the French explorer who led a 1959 expedition to the head-hunting wilderness of Dutch New Guinea and returned with the remarkable documentary, The Sky Above-The Mud Below. His new film attempts to explore New York City in much the same way. "Never has there been a city in the world like this," glows Gaisseau, as his camera ogles the sheer canyons of lower Manhattan. "It occurs to me that people who expect a bomb to fall...
RHINO! is a brilliantly scenic safari that combines the usual African flora and fauna with highly entertaining melodrama and a sharp sense...
...allergic to the sun, terrified of snakes and never met an elephant she couldn't do without, but Jenny Bell Bechtel came home from her first safari with big game under her belt and a blazing career...
...ones who got jobs"), decided to try her hand at designing instead. After 17 jobs and 13 years on Manhattan's 7th Avenue, she was unemployed. "Manufacturers," she explained, "never did what I asked them to." Some friends who lived in Kenya invited her to go on a safari. She jumped at the chance and onto the next plane...
This standard situation gets anything but standard treatment from Director Ivan Tors and his two scriptwriters (Art Arthur and Arthur Weiss). They have moderated melodrama to the requirements of realism, and they have punctuated their safari with some glorious fun. The episode in which the friendly enemies get looped on native liquor and then go bungling through the boondocks in search of a lone leopard ("You take uh one on uh lef, pal, an' I'll take uh one on uh right") is one of the sappiest hunting scenes ever written. Thanks mostly to the vivid work...