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Vertes Demeures

Original title: Green Mansions
  • 1959
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 44m
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5.3/10
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Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins in Vertes Demeures (1959)
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
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A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.

  • Director
    • Mel Ferrer
  • Writers
    • Dorothy Kingsley
    • William Henry Hudson
  • Stars
    • Audrey Hepburn
    • Anthony Perkins
    • Lee J. Cobb
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    • Director
      • Mel Ferrer
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Kingsley
      • William Henry Hudson
    • Stars
      • Audrey Hepburn
      • Anthony Perkins
      • Lee J. Cobb
    • 55User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn
    • Rima
    Anthony Perkins
    Anthony Perkins
    • Abel
    Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb
    • Nuflo
    Sessue Hayakawa
    Sessue Hayakawa
    • Runi
    Henry Silva
    Henry Silva
    • Kua-Ko
    Nehemiah Persoff
    Nehemiah Persoff
    • Don Panta
    Michael Pate
    Michael Pate
    • Priest
    Estelle Hemsley
    Estelle Hemsley
    • Cla-Cla
    Yoneo Iguchi
    • Native Guide
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Saito
    • Native Guide
    • (uncredited)
    Ron Veto
    • Native
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mel Ferrer
    • Writers
      • Dorothy Kingsley
      • William Henry Hudson
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    5AlsExGal

    Good technical work, mediocre story

    It's easy to see why 1959 critics called it "muddled". The film, which is set in South America's jungles, manages to be an ecological statement (man should take care of his surroundings), a love story, a tale of redemption (in the film's first ten minutes, Abel (Anthony Perkins) sees his father killed and vows vengeance on the killers. Audrey Hepburn as Rima does her utmost in a near impossible part. Lee J. Cobb overacts as Rima's protector.

    MGM spent over one million dollars (a great deal of money in 1959) getting shots of South America to mix in with the main filming done on MGM's back lot. The mixing in of the shots is well done, but it's obvious what was shot at MGM and what were the South American jungle shots. Perkins is the voice of sanity in the film, because whenever the plot threatens to get too wispy, he brings it back down to earth. He has a scene where he serenades Rima with his lovely tenor voice. It was a pity that he was never in a film musical.

    If the film has a message it seems to be that true love never dies.
    keerstin

    Read the book instead

    I read this book in 8th grade English & loved it. After we finished reading the book, we watched the movie and I was thoroughly disappointed. They completely changed the ending, turning it into a sappy, everything's right in the world, Hollywood ending instead of the tragic ending of the book. Happy endings are great, but if you're going to make a movie from a book you should at least try to stay as close to the story line as possible. I'm normally a big Audrey Hepburn fan, but even she couldn't salvage this one for me. Don't waste your time with this movie-read the book instead.
    TheVid

    Oddball Hollywood reworking of the famous book, redeemable in spite of incredibly bad casting choices.

    Colorful locales, kitschy production design and a nice stroke of sado-masochism go a long way in making this obscure gem a guilty pleasure of jungle-lust adventure. Mel Ferrer directs the story like a comics classic, with his then-wife Audrey Hepburn playing a jungle girl with her usual Givenchy class, and Tony Perkins as a young Indiana-Jones type. Hokey and utterly inappropriate, but still enjoyably offbeat, especially when Perkins croons a love song. The other cast members fare much better: with Lee J. Cobb overacting perfectly as Audrey's old man; Sessue Hayakawa, laconic and petulant as the Indian chief; and Henry Silva, all wide-eyed enthusiasm as the warrior relishing his tortuous ritual of courage. Old-style Hollywood, matinee magic in CinemaScope, with the added wonder of Stereophonic sound.
    5EUyeshima

    Hepburn in an Odd Though Watchable Curio as a Jungle Girl

    This must surely be the strangest movie that Audrey Hepburn made, though it's not without its virtues. Directed by her-then husband, actor Mel Ferrer, the 1959 movie is a fanciful adventure story where Hepburn plays Rima, a nymph-like "bird girl" living in the remotest part of the Venezuelan jungle. She is being hunted by the local Indian tribesmen for being an evil spirit, but she is protected first by her grandfather Nuflo and then by Abel, a young political refugee whom she rescues after he is bitten by a deadly coral snake. The slowly-paced story initially focuses on Abel's hazardous journey into the jungle with Joseph Ruttenberg's cinematography nicely capturing the authentic Amazon locations.

    Rima shows up as a shadowy figure about a half-hour into the film and doesn't speak until about ten minutes later. Leave it to Hepburn to exhibit any sort of conviction in such an impossible role. Looking ethereal if a little too styled and coiffed (even without Givenchy) and sounding entirely too Euro-cosmopolitan, she still exudes Rima's innocence while discovering the darker secrets of her past. The rest of the cast is not as lucky. Anthony Perkins, a year away from "Psycho", is irritatingly unctuous as Abel when he is not simply confounded by his heroic role. His low point has to be the ridiculous scene when he sings a love song to Rima as he strums his guitar. And where exactly did the guitar come from? Familiar character actors show up in the oddest roles. Lee J. Cobb, heavily made up as a cross between Uncle Jesse Duke and Santa Claus, turns in yet another ham-fisted performance as Nuflo, and Henry Silva is cast as another exotic as the ultimately nefarious tribal leader. Nehemiah Persoff has a small bit at the beginning as a greedy trader, while Sessue Hayakawa, of all people, has a mostly silent role as the tribal leader. Adding to the artifice is the obvious use of soundstages and matte shots to replicate the jungle, and the ending is pure Hollywood sappiness. This is a curio for Hepburn fans.
    5jacksflicks

    Awful, but . . .

    Tony Perkins in tight pants, wrestling Henry Silva in loin cloth, in lagoon, for love of jungle princess Audrey Hepburn. Yep, that's about it. Tony and Audrey are supposed to be around 19 and 16 respectively, even though he's really 26 and she's pushing 30. Which is almost OK, since everything is so gauzy.

    The story is silly and the production cheesy, and it all comes out like made-for-TV, which is a kind-of compliment, since it was released in 1959, which makes it ahead of its time, though, given the quality of made-for-TV, and that people had to buy a ticket to see this thing, that's not much consolation.

    It's lush and ripe, and though they claim it's filmed in South America, I can see the familiar landscapes of the backlot and the flora and fauna of the San Diego Zoo. This one is borderline MST3000, so the best way to watch it is stoned.

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    • Trivia
      One of the first films (if not the first) to be shot using Panavision's Auto Panatar lenses that eliminated what was called "anamorphic mumps" in the wide-screen CinemaScope process where in close-ups an actor's face would widen horizontally. This innovation won Panavision its first Academy Award. Each lens cost $11,000 ($94,000 in 2017).
    • Goofs
      South American Indians having driven Rima up a tall tree set it on fire and flames are seen in the tree tops but only the tree and brush at its base burns, not the rest of the forest.
    • Quotes

      Abel: [sings to Rima] They say that love is a fragile thing, a linnet's wing / a magic ring made of gold / They say that love is a bird in flight, a gleam of light / a star too bright to behold / Tell me, tell me, tell me, o child of the moon / Is it as they say? Must love slip away too soon? / Tell me, Rima, where are the meadows of June? / Speaking with her eyes, softly she replies: / I know a place where green mansions are, as near or far / As any star up above / And in this land of eternal spring, where hummingbirds can learn to sing / Green grow the mansions of love.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Forecast (1945)
    • Soundtracks
      Song of Green Mansions
      Music by Bronislau Kaper

      Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

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    • Release date
      • January 27, 1960 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La flor que no murió
    • Filming locations
      • Kaieteur Falls, Guyana(Background for opening credits)
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Budget
      • $3,288,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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