Top cast:Mary Fuller,Wadsworth Harris,Margery Bonney Erskine
Director:E. Mason Hopper
Genre:Biography
Region:Vietnam
Year:2002
Storyline:" Egypt""s fearful Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith) issued an edit to kill all newborn male Hebrew babies ("Since this deliverer is among their newborn, only their newborn need die")...Jim: Tell him why we moved here.Jim""s father: Will you hold it Jim?Jim:...Tell the man why we moved here.Jim""s father: Will you hold it?Jim: You can""t protect me.Jim""s father: Do you mind if I try? Do - do you have to slam the door in my face? I try to get to him.The film, shot on location in Arizona (near Elgin) and Mexico, authentically chronicles an epic, bleak and tough journey, similar to the ones inThe Odysseyor inExodus(in he Old Testament), that is fraught with external dangers, threats, ests of strength, and internal contentious tensions between its wo strong-willed, conflicting leaders: a hard-nosed, bitter, ruthless and tough commanding father (John Wayne in one of his best performances and his first film, of five, for Hawks) and his men, defiantly led by his less harsh, surrogate, adopted son (Montgomery Clift, in his first film, after being noticed acting in the Broadway stage production of Lillian Hellman""sThe Searching Wind).They planned to transport their discoveries-finds to Shanghai.Meanwhile, Foreign Office agent Benjamin Fry visited Rick and Evelyn in England and offered them "one last assignment" - to "courier" an ancient relic to post-war Shanghai in China and keep it safe; the historical artifact or object was the Eye of Shangri-La, recognized immediately by Evelyn for its mythical importance: "it points the way to the Pool of Eternal Life.