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| Notes | On a Myrna Loy kick aftet The Thin Man, I was lured by the pre-code intrigue. The movie needs trigger warnings from racism to being just plan awful. It is over the top and underbaked in so many ways. It doesn't even accomplish a campy charm. It pivots being too abrupt, too slow, and too pointless. It has everything: snakes, black slaves, yellow menace, drugs, sex; just not entertainment. It is a kitchen blender movie of comic book tropes and whatever was hot on the weekly reels. The only thing of interest is you can imagine a yound Steven Spielberg watching this, and seeing the elements that would make it to his retro-heroic Star Wars and Indiana Jones. |