Legend of the Lost [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	John Wayne Sophia Loren Rossano Brazzi Kurt Kasznar Sonia Moser
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	237982

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Actor(s):
John Wayne
Sophia Loren
Rossano Brazzi
Kurt Kasznar
Sonia Moser

Creators:
Jack Cardiff (Cinematographer)
Henry Hathaway (Producer)
Bert Bates (Editor)
Ben Hecht (Writer)
Robert Presnell Jr. (Writer)

Director(s):
Henry Hathaway

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9786301972161
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6301972163
Format: Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Universal product code (UPC): 027616177131
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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The good news is, one of John Wayne's least-known films has been restored to widescreen splendor. The bad news is, there's a reason Legend of the Lost has gone mostly unshown: it's a grievously misbegotten movie. Oh, the credits get you jumping: Wayne and international love goddess Sophia Loren under the direction of Henry Hathaway, with a Ben Hecht script and Technicolor camerawork by Jack (The Red Shoes) Cardiff. But Wayne is miscast as a raffish mercenary hired to guide French spiritualist Rossano Brazzi into the Sahara, where Brazzi's father disappeared searching for a lost city. And nothing sparks between the Duke and Loren, as a Timbuktu prostitute-pickpocket who joins the expedition because Brazzi speaks to her soul. There's little action, much turgid dialogue, and a jarring mix of Libyan locations with soundstage scenes shot back in Rome. Add a music score that sounds as if it belongs on a sci-fi film and you've got one bizarre movie. Still, Wayne completists should check it out, and Cardiff's cinematography is, as usual, ravishing. --Richard T. Jameson

Running time: 109 minutes