Ombre bianche
UK / France / Italy,
1960, 110 min
Directed by:
Nicholas RayScreenplay:
Nicholas RayCinematography:
Aldo TontiComposer:
Angelo Francesco LavagninoCast:
Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani, Peter O'Toole, Anna May Wong, Francis De Wolff, Ed Devereaux, Marco Guglielmi, Lee Montague, Robert Rietty, Anthony Chinn, Andy Ho (more)Plots(1)
According to tradition, an eskimo offers his wife to a missionary, as a sign of friendship. The missionary, unaware of the tradition, refuses. Inouk is offended and kills him. When he is arrested for murder, he doesn't understand. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (1)
Most of the time I don't mind it, but here it didn't sit well with me when someone who is not of a given nationality plays that nationality. So I just didn't like Anthony Quinn as the Eskimo, even though he plays him brilliantly. On one hand, it's nice to see the effort to capture their lives, but on the other hand, it still feels like an attempt to please the audience. It could have been a lot grittier.
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