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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Not the greatest Cary Grant movie but well worth watching. It has that Boys Own style of adventure so prevalent in films of the period. Claude Rains provides added value and the film has other interests. It is set in the Middle East before it was the Middle East. Cary Grant's character is a British officer captured by Kurdish raiders. The area would have had a completely different political significance in 1935 at the time the movie was released. The fight scenes, unfortunately, are laughable - poor quality stock footage mostly sped up and rather blurry but these scenes thankfully have little bearing on the plot. There is a great chemistry between the male stars and the acting is very good from all concerned. The story, though very much of its time, still carries a resonance today.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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a british officer -cary grant- is captured by the kurds and freed by an adventurer- claude rains- and then they help natives refugees to safey across a river, but there friendship is put to the test when back home, both love the same woman. and when cary grant is sent to the last outpost in kurdistan,and is attacked by thousand of natives .claude rains is sent to help but will he.its quite a good adventure film theres some good scenes and action, some of the action scenes are from the 1929 silent film. four feathers, good picture quality.
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1935's The Last Outpost is a typical example of the kind of colonial romantic hokum that was popular in the Golden Age. Set in the backwaters of the First World War, Cary Grant is the British armoured car officer saved from a Kurdish firing squad by Claude Rains' secret agent only to fall for the nurse who tends his wounds on his return (Gertrude Michael) who - naturally - turns out to be Rains' wife. Rains tracks Grant down to a deserted fort, but before he can kill him the `Fuzzies' attack in what looks like footage from one of the silent versions of The Four Feathers, and the two men have to team up to warn the relief column before they can be massacred...
So, no surprises, but it's a swift and efficient potboiler that keeps moving even if Grant and Michael don't burn the screen up in their scenes together, leaving Rains to provide most of the film's charisma in the first half before jealousy drives him mad (though his love scene with Ms. Michael might have that effect on you as well). An unbilled Akim Tamiroff makes a strong impression as a doomed Russian officer who briefly shares a cell with Grant too, but sadly the use of large amounts of stock footage from silent documentaries and forgotten features that are played at the wrong speed makes an even bigger one. It was as commonplace to speed up action scenes in the 30s as it is to overedit them like an MTV video today, but even by the standards of the day it turns what was once impressive footage into unintentional comedy. Extremely minor and disposable studio product, then, but at under 80 minutes a quick and easy watch even if Universal's Region 2 PAL DVD looks like a lazy standards conversion from NTSC.
So, no surprises, but it's a swift and efficient potboiler that keeps moving even if Grant and Michael don't burn the screen up in their scenes together, leaving Rains to provide most of the film's charisma in the first half before jealousy drives him mad (though his love scene with Ms. Michael might have that effect on you as well). An unbilled Akim Tamiroff makes a strong impression as a doomed Russian officer who briefly shares a cell with Grant too, but sadly the use of large amounts of stock footage from silent documentaries and forgotten features that are played at the wrong speed makes an even bigger one. It was as commonplace to speed up action scenes in the 30s as it is to overedit them like an MTV video today, but even by the standards of the day it turns what was once impressive footage into unintentional comedy. Extremely minor and disposable studio product, then, but at under 80 minutes a quick and easy watch even if Universal's Region 2 PAL DVD looks like a lazy standards conversion from NTSC.
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