Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers..
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school disaster flicks where the stakes are mostly just people running around screaming, yeah, you'll dig East of Java. It's not high art. It's not even medium art. But there is something strangely hypnotic about watching 1930s actors try to look terrified while a lion paces aroun...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
George Melford
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school disaster flicks where the stakes are mostly just people running around screaming, yeah, you'll dig East of Java. It's not high art. It's not even medium art. But there is something strangely hypnotic about watching 1930s actors try to look terrified while a lion paces around in the background. Skip it if you need your movies to make sense or if you have zero patience for the kind of grainy, stiff acting that defined this era. You'll probably hate it ..."
James Ashmore Creelman, Paul Perez, Gouverneur Morris
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