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- From: leeper@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Mark R. Leeper)
- Subject: Re: Movies about the Maya or Cortes?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:38:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.223808.5794@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: maya
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- In article <89921@bcsaic.boeing.com> vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver) writes:
- > Has there ever been a movie made about Maya people or Aztec? About Cortes?
- > I've got a friend writing a book about this era/area and would like
- > inspirational fictional movie footage to "get her in the mood!"
- >
- > Adv-Thanks-ance
- > Jann VanOver
- > vanover@atc.boeing.com
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- Listing from Maltin:
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- KINGS OF THE SUN (1963) C-108m. **1/2 D: J. Lee Thompson. Yul Brynner,
- George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter.
- Skin-deep spectacle, badly cast, telling of Mayan leader who comes to
- America with surviving tribesmen and encounters savage Indians.
- Filmed in Mexico.
-
- I myself do not remember the film well, but I can remember I was pretty
- ambivalent about it.
-
- Mark Leeper
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