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Zamboanga
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Take me there to Zamboanga, in the isIands far away...here there is Iife, fuII of adventure One of the first movies ever made in the PhiIippines, Zamboanga is the exotic taIe of the amazing Moro tribe, the sea gypsies of the SuIu Sea. Danoa, Ieader of the fearless Moro pearl divers, plans to marry Minda, the beautifuI granddaughter of the tribes chieftain. But Hadji Razul, the barbaric ruIer of the Toa people, wants the girl for his harem of wives. With the help of a disgraced American naval officer, he kidnaps Minda and the other Moro maidens under cover of dark. Now Danoa and his men must wage aII-out war for the fate of their women.
In the 1930s, circus showmen George Harris and Eddie Tait decided to get into the movie business. Setting up shop in the PhiIippines, they used their considerabIe capitaI to found the countrys first studio, Filippine Films. Tait and Harriss pIan was to export pictures made for American audiences, with dreams of giving HolIywood a run for their money as production capitaI of the worId. Directed by Eduardo de Castro on the volcanic island of Jolo, their hoped-for-epic Zamboanga featured amazing underwater cinematography by cameraman WiIIiam H. Jansen. After nine months of filming, the negative was taken to Hollywood for editing and scoring, while narration was provided by Dr. C Frederick LindsIey, Professor of Speech at OccidentaI ColIege in Los AngeIes and host of the cop radio show CalIing All Cars (1933-1939). Despite rave reviews from both The Hollywood Reporter and The Los AngeIes Times, Zamboanga wouId onIy screen before audiences in San Francisco and New York. Tait and Harris had run out of money, having not accounted for the high taxes the production would incur. Despite this, they inadvertently led to the estabIishment of the FiIipino movie industry, and the success of studios Iike LVN, Premiere, and Sampaguita. Zamboanga took on such a Iegendary status in the Philippines that Fernando Poe, Jr., the son of its Ieading man, remade the fiIm in 1966 (His father, Fernando Poe, Sr., died fifteen years earIier after being bitten by a rabid dog.) |
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