The Living Desert (1953)

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The Living Desert (1953)
Topic Started: Sep 1 2008, 06:47 PM (140 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Sep 1 2008, 06:47 PM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,062 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Welcome to the great American southwest, where everybody eats everybody else, for the most part. A truly spectacular Disney True-Life Adventure, with a lot of high points, notably a tarantula battling a wasp. I also liked the horny toad gulping down ants, the roadrunner pecking a snake for no reason other than to piss him off, and the kangaroo rat's flight to rescue her babies from the snake. Oh, and when the narrator tells us that a wild pig is the most ferocious animal in North America, I just laughed, until I saw one of them take after a bobcat. Yikes! As the man said, a wild pig has "long tusks and a short temper" indeed. Nightmare time! The only drawback in the film is the music, which frequently is used for comic effect and which comes across these days as so shudderingly corny; worst is a pair of scorpions mating to a square dance.



Chandu	Sep 2 2008, 07:33 AM Post #2
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,266 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	I thought The Living Desert was just about the best thing I'd ever seen when I saw it as a kid! I was just as impressed with The Vanishing Prairie, it's sequel from Disney. But back then, this kind of stuff hadn't yet seen the light of day on television, let alone technicolor.
	Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me...


Paul	Sep 2 2008, 05:50 PM Post #3
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 308 Group: Guests Member #57 Joined: October 1, 2005	Laughing Gravy Sep 1 2008, 06:47 PM The only drawback in the film is the music, which frequently is used for comic effect and which comes across these days as so shudderingly corny; worst is a pair of scorpions mating to a square dance. They also cornballed that up by running sections backwards and forwards and in loops, as I recall.


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