Robert Warwick is an independent Burmese price, and his son has been murdered, shot dead. All the evidence points to Robert Ryan. Local British commissioner Reginald Denny says that Ryan must be brought to Rangoon and tried, and orders the most able police officer available to him, David Farrar, to do so. But Ryan makes his way through the jungle to the teak plantation run by Barbara Stanwyck, and gains her trust and love. When Farrar shows up, she helps Ryan escape. Farar pursues him.
Director Allan Dwan's 399th movie is beautifully photographed by John Alton, and with Ryan and Stanwyck, there are some impressive pyrotechnics in the acting. Unfortunately, there's some annoying idiot plotting in the denouement, evidence that would have wrapped the entire story up in less than ten minutes. Of course, then we couldn't have seen Miss Stanwyck lording it over the locals, treating well-behaved elephants kindly, . Neither would we have witnessed a slugfest between Ryan and Farrar, nor a gun battle in which Warwick's troops try to murder the three principals in a savages-invading-the-fort dust-up that was hoary by the time this movie was made. If that's your idea of a good time..
Director Allan Dwan's 399th movie is beautifully photographed by John Alton, and with Ryan and Stanwyck, there are some impressive pyrotechnics in the acting. Unfortunately, there's some annoying idiot plotting in the denouement, evidence that would have wrapped the entire story up in less than ten minutes. Of course, then we couldn't have seen Miss Stanwyck lording it over the locals, treating well-behaved elephants kindly, . Neither would we have witnessed a slugfest between Ryan and Farrar, nor a gun battle in which Warwick's troops try to murder the three principals in a savages-invading-the-fort dust-up that was hoary by the time this movie was made. If that's your idea of a good time..