Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hate and horror. Harbingers of hell...
...forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist that the kilt is more healthful for Scots than trousers because they are accustomed to a warm wrapping for the abdomen...
...Green Hell (Universal) has nothing but its title in common with Author Julian Duguid's brutally vivid account of physical torments in the Bolivian jungles. The picture dramatizes the dangers run by a group of treasure seekers trapped in a fetid South American jungle between a tribe of head-hunting Indians and Joan Bennett...
...mind you. That's about all there is to this "Rulers of the Sea" flick, and it's not enough. Sometimes the thing moves so slowly that you wish a good gust of wind would some around and help those engines along. Not that it isn't a hell of a lot more interesting than a History I exam. If you like good photographic shots of ships plowing into heavy scas and steel slithering on steel down below why you might even like this rather than just tolerate...
Author La Varre has undoubtedly done something in South America in a topee and a pair of expensive boots (a photograph proves it), and he has an ingratiatingly beautiful wife (same equipment), but his tales are in the "Green Hell" category. Gold and other treasure is the goal of most of the adventures narrated; the sexual problems presented by Amazon Indian women in beaded aprons are coy complications in several plots...