Beyond Bengal
Feature film · 62 min · dir. Harry Schenck
AS FLEET AS AN ANTELOPE, CAN CONQUER TWO TIGERS… AND ACTUALLY THINKS!
- Adventure
- Action
Synopsis
The record of an expedition deep into the Malayan jungle.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Harry Schenck
- Writer
- Harry Schenck
- Released
- 1934-05-18
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Running time
- 62 minutes
Cast & crew
- Harry Schenck Director
- Harry Schenck
- Joan Baldwin
- Nain Sei
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Asia Screeches at the Top of Its Lungs · Christine Hennig · 2005-08-21
This 30s nature adventure documentary is the Asian version of Africa Speaks. Its somewhat less offensive than the other film, since the natives are treated respectfully for the most part (with the exception of a romantic couple that stages a silly wedding) and at least some of the animal killing does not seem to be gratuitous. This actually looks like it was quite dangerous to make, as there are tigers, leopards, panthers, pythons, and stampeding elephants around every turn, and there are some actual scenes of people getting seriously injured by them. Most upsetting is their treatment of the…