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Word: tanganika (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fundamentally like all other Westerns past, present, and future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

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