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Mr Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
Director: Al Viola
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From Time Out Film Guide
Filmed on location with the assistance of the Argentinian army and navy, and with Arne Sucksdorff responsible for the Antarctic animal sequences. Viola's version (Forbush alone in the Antarctic wastes) was pruned to make way for the inconsequential framing story (directed by an uncredited Roy Boulting) deemed necessary to get people into the cinema. So Graham Billing's novel emerges as a trite romantic fable about a rich young biologist who leaves home and his frigid girlfriend (Mills) for the warm-hearted beasties of the frozen South. There's a single sequence during the arrival of the penguins that makes the rest of the film just about worth sitting through.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Al Viola
Producer: Henry Trettin
Cast: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton, Thorley Walters, Judy Campbell, Joss Ackland full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 101 mins
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