What's the most recent movie you've seen?

Started by Travis Bickle, November 08, 2012, 02:01:21 PM

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Quote from: kit saginaw on August 01, 2015, 03:35:43 PM
I know where the German 'ship' in the movie is...  still performing cargo-passenger runs on Lake Tanganyika.

I read about her last Winter in a French human-interest article.  She's been logistically impractical to replace all these years.  France, Germany, or Belgium needed to include in their replacement-bids, the construction of a shipyard on the shores before they could actually build a new ship.  Too pricey.

So the Liemba has been continuously overhauled since 1927.

She was 'the other queen' in the script... having her named the Königin Luise (Queen Louise... after Queen Luise of Prussia)  The African Queen is still in-service too, revamped and ferrying tourists in the Florida Keys.

It's a great film.  Virtually flawless.

That is pretty cool info, kit.  Thanks for sharing with us.   :thumbup:

kit saginaw

1953, Destination Gobi...  This needs to be re-done into a sprawling epic, because there were detachments of Japanese horse-cavalry roving the Mongolian desert-regions in the early 40's, clashing with flocks of nomadic sand-riders.  And (under SACO; Sino American Cooperative Organization) the US Navy did operate a manned weather-station in the Gobi Desert.

But the movie is a disappointing hodge-podge of dude ranch soap-opera snippets, with predictable patriotic pom-pomming.  At some point, Jap spotter-planes spoil the party and Richard Widmark has to lead his team out of the Province, to the China-coast.  Director Robert Wise had opportunities to present exciting action-sequences, but he generally bypassed them in-favor of suspenseless espionage-fluff.  I'll add a point for enthusiastic production and give the film a 5.5-out-of-10.