7/10
Treasure of the Golden Condor - A film with Several Ingredients, but Tasty
15 December 2021
This is a wonderful hour and a half of pure escapism with several ingredients from successful past Hollywood films: Citizen Kane (young boy gets ripped from poor parents and sent to live with rich relative), Wuthering Heights (stable boy falls in love with woman above his station), Lost Horizon (Conway returns to his Shangri-la and true love), a forerunner to Indiana Jones, and The Naked Prey, and a prelude to the French Revolution to boot. Some of my favorite actors are in this film (Leo G Carroll and Cornell Wilde), and a dash of 1942's Son of Fury with Tyrone Power and George Sanders, two more of my favorite screen personalities. So the film may not be perfect, but it is certainly entertaining, and helps us forget about COVID for an hour and a half. That alone is worth 7 stars these days.
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