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SANDS OF THE KALAHARI. The makers of Zulu find lively if conventional excitement in the plight of five marooned men, led by Stuart Whitman, and one venturesome woman (Susannah York) who endure heat, hunger and sexual desire after a plane crash in the African desert...
SANDS OF THE KALAHARI. The makers of Zulu find lively if conventional excitement in the plight of five marooned men, led by Stuart Whitman, and one venturesome woman (Susannah York) who endure heat, hunger and sexual desire after a plane crash in the African desert...
...living on gags alone. Something in You Can't Take It With You stirs the get-away-from-it-all urge in the American psyche. Call it the raft complex, that free-floating armistice from all workaday concerns that Huck Finn declared as he drifted down the Mississippi. Whitman distilled that spirit when he wrote: "I loafe and invite my soul...
...hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman, who is left to look out for his rifle, his woman (Susannah York) and his injured rival (Stanley Baker...
...drama remains doggedly minor because Writer-Director Cy Endfield too often concentrates on the man-womanman conflict, which is sexier but not so interesting finally as the elemental battle for survival. In Actor Whitman's display of beefcake villainy, muscles are defined more clearly than motivation or character. The threat of death 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...