The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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The Naked Jungle
Adventure · Romance · Drama · 1954
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Movie details
The Naked Jungle
“The picture about the Marabunta!”
1954 Adventure · Romance · Drama 1h 35m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.6 / 10
Community rating
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The Naked Jungle?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Byron Haskin
Written by
Philip Yordan · Carl Stephenson · Ranald MacDougall
Eleanor Parker
Joanna Leiningen
Charlton Heston
Christopher Leiningen
Abraham Sofaer
Incacha
William Conrad
Commissioner
Romo Vincent
Boat Captain
Douglas Fowley
Medicine Man
John Dierkes
Gruber
Court is in session
Put The Naked Jungle on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.