SPOILERS *** Sooooo similar to Elephant Walk. This one is in South America, based in 1901, and the wife is a mail order bride. In Elephant Walk, it's Ceylon, and the wife had actually already known the husband before she moved to the plantation. But... the story lines are pretty much the same... wife moves very far away to be with hubby, and some natural, terrible phenomenon(s) test their marriage and their love. Both from Paramount, too. Here, Christopher (Charlton Heston) has sent for Joanna (Eleanor Parker). Christopher is loud and domineering, while Joanna is calm, gentle, and soft. Clearly, they will clash right from the start. It's quite entertaining.... kind of a battle for control. Directed by Byron Haskin, whose specially seems to have been films about far away places. According to wikipedia, this one is based on a story by Austrian Carl Stephenson. This seems to be the only story of his turned into film. And apparently he was frequently mistaken for the historian of the same name. Shows on Turner Classic. Quite good.
Review of The Naked Jungle
