Bring 'Em Back Alive

1932
Approved
1 Std. 5 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAmerican animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a ... Alles lesenAmerican animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a team of native helpers roam the area from Northern Johore to Perak in search of interestin... Alles lesenAmerican animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a team of native helpers roam the area from Northern Johore to Perak in search of interesting wild animals, reptiles and birds. Hoping to find a tiger, Buck captures a monitor lizard... Alles lesen

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6,4/10

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- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

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Wissenswertes
When the Motion Picture Herald reviewer doubted the authenticity of the animal fight sequences, Terry Ramsaye, editor of Motion Picture Herald, defended the film's authenticity, claiming that the animal action was all shot "in a compound adjacent to the city of Singapore, in the Straits Settlements." Ramsaye added, "The scenes staged and recorded in the compound may be accepted as dramatically reasonable reconstructions of what actually happens in the open jungle."

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Frank Buck: [narrating] I was beginning to get impatient. At the same time, I had to smile to myself; here I'd been weeks on the water and was expecting Ali to be on time to the minute. It just shows you. I had every confidence in Ali. He'd been my right-hand man on many previous trips to the Malay country - and even though his body was brown, he was pure white inside. By a lucky break, I had once cured him of jungle fever. And even I did not think as much of myself as he thought of me. Good old Ali! I was sure glad to see him.

Crazy Credits
On the 1948 re-release prints the MPAA seal appears at the right bottom of the RKO Radio logo.

Verbindungen
Edited into Jungle Cavalcade (1941)

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Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

Frank Buck 1884-1950

Over 80 years after its first release Frank Buck's Bring 'Em Back Alive still is quite a work of film making. Even though the animals confrontations are clearly being staged the fact that the film was done at all is a source of some wonder. A couple of years before MGM had so many problems shooting Trader Horn on location not the least of which was tropical disease that no companies went on jungle location from America until The African Queen and King Solomon's Mines were done. I think we can assume that Mr. Buck in his work had become acclimatized years earlier.

Safaris were nothing new. The most famous one was that of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 after he left office. Hunters were nothing new either. But trapping animals including some really dangerous species was a new idea back in the day and while Frank Buck wasn't the first he certainly popularized the notion. Bring them back for study and exhibit.

Time has overtaken Frank Buck. These same animals he trapped and others hunted are now in danger of extinction. The Good Book says God made man to rule over the rest of the species, but nowhere does it say exterminate them. We are their stewards, their caretakers and that is the idea that predominates now.

Still Buck and his exploits made him a popular hero. Buck was also his best publicist as this film shows.

It also shows some of his racial attitudes no doubt acquired in his childhood in Gainesville, Texas. I got a bit of a jolt when during his narration he meets up with some of the Malay natives who had worked on his safaris before. They were old and valued friends and he gave them what in his 1932 Texas mindset the highest possible compliment that they may be brown skinned, but they're all white on the inside.

You can interpret that in a lot of ways. For myself I believe it was the attitude of a man brought up a certain way, but having to work with and depend on people of a different race his attitudes were adjusting. In his mind he thought of it as praise. I guess we can leave it at that.

Racial attitudes notwithstanding Frank Buck was a man who was an adventurer who was in a dangerous business, bring 'em back alive.