Hatari

Acting doesn't get any better than this cast -- John Wayne, Red Buttons. The actors nowadays cannot hold a candle to these actors who actually took acting classes while under contract to studios. These people actually had to act -- no cussing, swearing, nude scenes, racist remarks to carry the movie, it took a solid script and people who knew their lines and how to deliver them. Oh how I wish those days of family entertianment were not long gone. Great script, nice scenic views of the African bush, the animals, it all comes together wonderfully in this movie. I've seen it at least 25 times, I'll see it another 25 before too long.

Hatari is a comedy/ African adventure with a top cast. It's well worth watching!

What's to review? It's a DVD disc. Arrived in an unopened package and was unbroken.Video Quality is as to be expected for a film made in 1961.

Best movie ever!!

One of my favorite movies that duke was in.

Love the comedy thrown in on this one.. Red buttons is a real laugh too.. On safari with the duke, oh yeah.

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.

I love John Wayne movies, and this one was a good one

The storyline is good the characters are good and the storyline is - well, good. The actors are wooden at times almost missing cues and sometimes you feel they are reading off of a cue card but it is funny at times and really good entertainment. Not the usual format for John Wayne but he makes it work.

Western-Legende JOHN WAYNE hat tatsächlich auch eine Reihe anderer Filme gemacht, er ritt nicht nur mit dem Pferd durch die Prärie. So wie in „Hatari!“, wo er ein 1 PS gegen 100 PS tauscht und in der Savanne Jagd auf wilde Tiere macht.„Hatari!“ ist eine Mischung aus Abenteuerfilm und Komödie, sehr ausgewogen und unterhaltsam inszeniert. Dafür zeichnet Regie-Legende HOWARD HAWKS verantwortlich, der eine Reihe erstklassiger Filme mit dem „Duke“ in der Hauptrolle gedreht hat.In „Hatari!“ wird die Geschichte einer Gruppe Tierfänger erzählt, die in Tanganjika, dem heutigen Tansania, eine Großwild-Fangstation betreiben, wo für Zoos aus der ganzen Welt gefangen werden.Angeführt wird diese illustre Truppe von SEAN MERCER (John Wayne), der sich wie ein Vater um die junge Chefin BRANDY (Michele Girardon) kümmert, deren Vater bei der Jagd auf ein Nashorn ums Leben kam.Zum Team gehören außerdem der deutsche Rennfahrer KURT MÜLLER (Hardy Krüger), der ehemalige Taxifahrer „POCKETS“ (Red Buttons), der „Indianer LITTLE WOLF (Bruce Cabot) und der ehemalige Stierkämpfer LUIS (Valentin de Vargas).Als die Gruppe wieder einmal Jagd auf ein Nashorn machen, wird der „INDIANER“ ebenfalls lebensgefährlich verletzt und muss ins Krankenhaus gebracht werden. Da der INDIANER eine seltene Blutgruppe hat, ist sein Übelreben fraglich. Da trifft es sich gut, dass der französische Draufgänger „CHIPS“ (Gerard Blain) auftaucht, der dieselbe Blutgruppe hat. „CHIPS“ ist scharf auf den Job des Indianers, was KURT so wütend macht, dass er ihn niederschlägt.Als die Gruppe dann wieder auf die Fangstation zurückkehrt, findet SEAN in seinem Bett eine junge Frau. Bei ihr handelt es sich um die Fotografin eines Basler Zoos, die den schwierigen Namen ANNA MARIA DÁLLESSANDRO (Elsa Martinelli) trägt. Kaum ist sie nagekommen, sorgt sie für reichlich Verwirrung und ein paar Tage später taucht dann auch noch „CHIPS“ auf ….Ich mag den Film wirklich sehr, sehr gerne und habe ihn schon dutzende Male gesehen. Besonders gut gefallen mir die Jagdszenen, die von den Schauspielern selber gedreht wurden, worauf HOWARD HAWKES besonders stolz war. Er betonte immer wieder, dass die Schauspieler und Statisten die Tiere selber gefangen hätten, lediglich ein Tierpfleger wurde zur Beratung hinzugezogen. Aber genau das macht den Film so authentisch, deshalb ist er so mitreißend.Heute wäre das undenkbar, Tierschützer und Gutmenschen würden HAWKES steinigen und zum Boykott des Films aufrufen … wir sind eben inzwischen sowas von politisch korrekt!Mein Fazit: „Hatari!“ gehört zu meinen Lieblingsfilmen, keine Frage. Nicht nur weil JOHN WAYNE ausnahmsweise mal keinen Cowboy mimt, sondern weil hier einfach alles stimmt. Der Film ist spannend und witzig, die Bilder sind wunderschön und authentisch, die Schauspieler großartig.Wer auf eine gute Abenteuerkomödie Lust hat, Filme aus den 60ern mag, der ist hier genau richitg!

A very good delivery service for an excellent film starring John Wayne in a non western role. The film is set in East Africa and will appeal to anyone who likes wild animals and Africa itself. Contains humour and action and I would recommend it.

love this film red buttons at his best

Absolutely brilliant film, good cast red Buttons very funny. Best John Wayne film.