A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.
Salmaan Peerzada
- Ahaz Khan
- (as Salmaan Peer)
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- TriviaAl Viola was dismissed from this movie and replaced by Producer Roy Boulting. Swedish documentary filmmaker Arne Sucksdorf had started filming the penguin footage in the Antarctic, but it failed to blend with the studiobound sequences. Boulting then brought his wife Hayley Mills on-board, which further added to this movie's escalating budget. This was one of the box-office disappointments, which led to Bryan Forbes' dismissal as head of EMI Films.
- GoofsWhen the first penguin arrives and slides on its belly towards Forbush, there are already other penguin belly tracks in the snow.
- Quotes
Richard Forbush: [to the predatory skuas] Retribution is near my fine feathered friends. Make no mistake about that.
Richard Forbush: [as he attacks the skuas with a catapult] You've asked for it, now you'll get it! Now it's your turn! You hear me? Go on, get out! GET OUT! ALL OF YOU! Die, damn you! Die! DO YOU HEAR ME? DIE! DIE!
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Dill sent to the Antarctic
Expensive cinematography in the Antarctic and an original orchestral score is wasted in this trainwreck of a film adapted from a novel.
John Hurt is a useless young wastrel, an unprepossessing young man who sexually assaults Hayley Mills early in the film before being sent on a mission to the south pole to observe penguins.
Tony Britton ("Tinker" from Lovejoy) is a friend as is Jackie Gleason the daughter from "Bless This House".
Mr Forbush lives above a bijou restaurant with baked beans in a big glazed pot which appears to be the same building as the home of Tara (Hayley Mills).
Most of the cinematography, expensively shot at taxpayers expense, is wasted by Hurt's witless commentary.
- dsewizzrd-1
- Oct 8, 2018
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- Cry of the Penguins
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- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971) officially released in Canada in English?
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