An odd film. Rank were so determined to crack the international market they set this entirely in America, around the Mississipi, with an American lead (Howard Keel) and British co stars pretending to be American (Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry Corbett). Why not set it in England? Anyway, no one went.
I've got to say, this was a decent movie though. It's visually really excellent, exciting. Takes place in a flood. Keel and Cusack are escaped crooks. Heywood the Girl. Keel is Unjustly Convicted and Seeking Vengeance. That's all fine. Cusack is a giggling psycho, very effective. I liked Heywood.
It's an unpretentious B. Keel is a A picture star in musicals but not in non musicals. He's not hot enough either to go shirtless as he often does here.
Some spectacular sequences of things crashing in the water, scrambling around. This looks different. Nicely shot. Technically accomplished.
It's just weird John Davis of Rank tried to go for the international market with these B pictures. They were fading out in Hollywood. The successful Rank pictures were based on true stories, adventures, things that were unique.
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