Hatari! [Blu-ray] [Artwork may be mixed]

Excellent

Got here in great time in excellent condition.

Scenery and animals added to great vehicle for John Wayne's strength and dynamic. Romance good. Baby elephants fun!

Great movie

For those of you who didn't grow up with John Wayne you don't know what you missed. He was one of a kind and he knew his audience like no other movie star before or since. When he was young the women swooned over him and he became a sex symbol over night then when WWII came he became a symbol of what America was fighting for and solidified his top ten box office position from which he never strayed. Perhaps more than any other actor he paid attention to what he did on screen that clicked with his audience and he was willing to be what they wanted and so when other actors got old and fell by the way side 'The Duke' as he was called (after a dog he'd had as a boy that hung around fire stations with its owner) was smart enough to age gracefully and start taking on those patriarchal roles that made him an institution among living Americans. The two at least and sometimes more movies he made a year became events and swung between his quintessential westerns to fun family fare best exemplified by McLintock (his top moneymaker) and this sprawling look at an Africa we'll never see again.This movie is basically a John Wayne movie dressed up as an African travelogue and he made it primarily because he wanted his family to see Africa before 'we spoiled it' as he so astutely put it. It's also probably the hardest action movie he ever made as he and Howard Hawks (one of the two go to Directors he had over his career the other being John Ford) disdained stunt men for this shoot and that really is mostly the cast doing those incredible shots of gathering up those zoo animals throughout the movie, especially John Wayne, he reveled in it I think mostly showing off for the family but still putting the movie's main acting asset in harms way a lot of the time. But in this particular case he was upstaged, which didn't happen too darn often, by the animals and Africa itself in this movie. The plot is thin but fits the fun and some of the most spectacular African Scenery and close up look at the native animals fueled up and fighting back. It also marks one of the last time 'The Duke' let himself be half of the romantic triangle. Red Buttons and three baby elephants provide the comedy relief (tho all the cast acquits themselves of impeccable comic timing throughout) in the movie but I don't want to spoil too much if you haven't seen it.It's family friendly and the kids will still be awed by the animals, bored by the mushy parts, and rallied by the action scenes and the comedy bits. It's just a grand time for all and with Henry Mancini scoring the music it couldn't go wrong. The Duke transitioned into an institution and we adults were beginning to realize how much we loved the fact that he never cheated us up there on the screen and always gave us what we wanted to see. And that's why we continued to go to his two films a years knowing we'd enjoy every minute no matter how many times we'd seen him do it before, we were rooting for him, we wanted him to be The Duke til his last breath, and damned if he wasn't!! He was broke a couple of times in his career and once he said part of it was that he never skimmed the budgets and put every dime in every scene there was to spend. I believe him. He got tarnished a bit by politics towards the end but everybody did on both sides but he never gave us less than we paid for at the movie theater. Hatari! is one of his best entertainments ever and you'll enjoy the heck out of it I promise you!!!Kind of a long rambling review but I tend to wax nostalgic when I think about The Duke and I assure you there's about 70 million baby boomers out there who do too.

Works good

What’s not to love! It’s John , great movie keeps you watching and waiting for what’s next! Watch it thank me later.

"Hatari!" has long been a personal favorite for its adventure, excitement, thrills, laughs, cinematography, sound track, and overall entertainment. "Hatari!" was the first movie I ever went to see more than once; I wore out two sound track records listening to Henry Mancini's marvelous music; and the film was the first VHS I ever purchased. As my tapes were starting to go bad, I finally purchased the DVD. I was quite relieved that all 157 minutes are on one disc, and in wide screen. (How I long for more movies that dare to defy the establishment and release films that take their time to evolve). Having just watched it, I felt compelled to write a review for this epic movie."Hatari!" (which means "danger" in Swahili) is in some ways a "modern" day western: jeeps and trucks have replaced the horse, but the "cowboys" are still using ropes to capture (or round up) the animals to take to "market" (the zoo, in this case). But "Hatari!" is also a bit of a documentary (and lampoons this through Elsa Martinelli's character Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro, who is there to photographically "document" the catching of the animals). And it is very good; albeit the portrayal of the local native populations and the attitudes of the non-Africans are aloof and condescending (a "portrait of Africa still dominated by non-Africans").True to nearly all of John Wayne's movies, the actor did nearly all of the scenes himself--for which much of the audio had to be re-dubbed due to John Wayne's cursing while wrestling with the animals--which inspired the other actors to be fully involved as well:"According to director Howard Hawks, all the animal captures in the picture were performed by the actual actors; no stunt men or animal handlers were substituted on screen. The rhino really did escape, and the actors really did have to recapture it--and Hawks included the sequence for its realism." (IMDb)"Hatari!" utilized an international cast (unlike many westerns that really should also have multiple nationalities representing the "cowboys"), reflective of the types of people that actually worked in the "business" at that time. "Hatari!" gathers its several characters (roles) from different parts of the world: "Sean Mercer (John Wayne), Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro (Elsa Martinelli), Kurt Mueller (Hardy Krüger), Brandy De la Court (Michele Girardon), Charles 'Chips' Maurey (Gerard Blain), Luis Francisco Garcia Lopez (Valentin De Vargas) are, respectively, from USA, Italy, Germany, France, France and Mexico (Wikipedia)." Through this cast, as well as the use of locals (stereotyped or not), "Hatari!" rings out the excitement of the chase, the comradely interpersonal relationships, and the wonderful world of animals. (According to IMDb, "Jan Oelofse, the animal supervisor, captured and tamed all the animals in Africa; the elephants, leopard, the cheetahs, and flew with 40 animals aboard a DC6 across Africa, through South America to Hollywood to continue scenes shot in Hollywood). As with many other "less popular" movies, John Wayne exhibits an unexpected ability to keep up with the comedy in the film.Indeed, in the final analysis, "Hatari!" is about the animals; first and foremost. As such, it is a wonderful movie for the whole family (the only real "violence" is when "the Indian" is slightly "gored" in the leg by a rhino at the beginning of the film). I introduced my sons to John Wayne with my favorite, "Stagecoach," but they were less than thrilled, being in black and white. So, I showed them "McLintock!" (See my review of the later for more comments on this), and they were sold. They then chose "Hatari!" to watch, and it remains their favorite John Wayne movie. I have since loaned "Hatari!" to others with children, and unanimously, they have all enjoyed it. And why not? John Wayne, baby elephants, wondering cheetahs, feisty ostriches, towering giraffes, stampeding animals and lots of laughs, all in one movie! (And don't forget the great musical score!).Please Note: If this review was not helpful to you, I would appreciate learning the reason(s) so I can improve my reviews. My goal is to provide help to potential buyers, not get into any arguments. So, if you only disagree with my opinion, could you please say so in the comments and not indicate that the review was not helpful. Thanks.

Para quienes no hablan inglés, esta película no tiene doblaje ni subtítulos en español. Esta película cuenta la aventura de una veterinaria italiana al hacer su servicio social con un grupo de cazadores de distintas nacionalidades en África. Corren los años 60s y en ésta época no es común ver a una mujer veterinaria ni documentalista. Ella practica la fotografía y decide hacer un documental sobre los cazadores. La particularidad de este grupo de cazadores es que deben atrapar animales vivos para zoológicos, eventos, circos, etc. Sin causarles daño. Uno de éllos resulta ser un inventor y cuando prueba cada uno de sus inventos, los nativos gritan ¡Hatari! ¡Hatari! (¡Peligro! ¡Peligro!) debido al gran escándalo que producen sus inventos y a la apariencia peligrosa de los mismos, especialmente cuando al probar uno de éllos provoca un conato de incendio, dado que el inventor maneja mucho la pólvora. En cuanto a la veterinaria, una vez que élla se entera de que el jefe de todo el grupo de cazadores no tiene pareja trata de conquistarlo. En el tiempo que pasa viviendo con el grupo de cazadores élla aprende especialmente sobre las costumbres de los elefantes, especialmente su comportamiento con sus crías.

Magnifico film! Pur essendo ambientato in Tanzania, Africa, si vede che c’à la mano di uno dei vecchi artigiani di Hollywood, vale a dire Howard Hawks! Oserei dire un … “western africano”. Le scene per la cattura degli animali nella savana sono assolutamente da vedere, specie la cattura del rinoceronte. Film avventuroso ma anche un po’ commedia comica, con John Wayne (Sean Mercer) e Red Buttons (Pockets) che la fanno da padrone (quest’ultimo per la parte comica). Elsa Martinelli (Anna Maria D'Alessandro), che qui interpreta una fotografa italiana, è superba! Nonostante la “rudezza” di John Wayne nel “dichiarare il suo amore per lei” (un rocambolesco inseguimento, alla fine del film, per le vie della città), una volta, in un’intervista, la udii dire che John Wayne, nella “vita reale”, era un, sue testuali parole, “autentico gentiluomo”.

ホークス監督ジョンウェイン黄金コンビの傑作！　アクション恋、コメディをあまなす所出しています。ヘンリーマンシーニの音楽、リーブラケットの脚本　イーデスヘッドの衣装　全て良い　ウェインは珍しく現代劇でコメディもやってて、途中、羊のミルクが入ったバケツをひっくり返し、頭にかぶってしまうシーンは最高だった。もちろん車でサイたち動物を追いかけるシーンも迫力がありかっこ良い　とにかく観て欲しい！

I like this film

da tanto tempo lo volevo rivedere. E stato veramente un piacere