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| ACTORS: | John Wayne, Sophia Loren |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Henry Hathaway |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 17 December, 1957 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616881496 |
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Customer Reviews of Legend of the Lost
Classic Adventure GREAT ! An adventure classic with exotic flavor and great suspense. Numerous lesser movies, such as "Raider's of the Lost .." were spawned from this masterpiece. It seems that contemporary Hollywood producers can only make movies from cartoons (Flintstones, etc.), and now stoop to rely on cheap computer graphics instead of gray matter.
"Legend of the Lost" exudes both talent and creativity in great abundance. The Duke IS King! This film IS a legend! Sophia Loren IS at her absolute best!
Get lost in another time
Who thinks up the character names? Joe January (John Wayne) drifter, Dita (Sophia Loren) of ill repute, and Paul Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi) bible thumper, teem up to look for a lost city and possibly a lost treasure. Paul has a map, Joe knows the territory, and Dita is fun to look at. There are a few inconsistencies and maybe not the best music but you can get lost in the story and have fun speculating as to what is happening next.
When they get to their destination they find more than a city. They find themselves and it isn't pretty.
So who gets what? Is there really a treasure? And just who is the good guy?
Strange movie invites unfairly harsh criticism
I had just seen Houseboat and really wanted to catch another Sophia flick. There is a criminal lack of her movies on DVD. With all the harsh criticisms of this movie, I bought it hesitantly only because I couldn't find many Sophia movies. There's a strange flavor to this movie, almost as if something about it was experimental. The story doesn't have a strong punch line by the end, but it does come to a logical conclusion that some may not find satisfying, but I did.
The best part of the movie were the good lines they gave John Wayne and the great comic timing with which he delivered them. In this movie he seems to have perfected the kind of character Harrison Ford played in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. While Sophia Loren is breathtakingly beautiful, with her talent and ability to project personality, she would still be fun to watch even if she was as plain as a blank sheet of paper. (Thank goodness she is gorgeous, though.)
Maybe what disappoints some people is that this movie appears to set itself up to be a wild action adventure, but instead this is more of a character development story before the time this kind of thing was popular in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It's a good movie to display some of the Duke's abilities to display the kind of character he often plays from a different perspective. And of course, Sophia is Sophia, bless her heart, and the packaging it comes in.