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Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Connections Referenced in Brigitte et Brigitte User reviews 6 Review. Top review. The Bandit of Zhobe is not an exception. Kirpianuscus Sep 13, Details Edit. Release date April United States.
United Kingdom. Der Bandit von Zhobe. Warwick Film Productions. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 20 minutes. Back in the day tales of the British army defending those outer reaches of the Empire on which the sun never set were as popular with British kids as the dime novels written about the exploits of our frontier characters out west. The Bandit Of Zhobe plays like one of those westerns.
The evil Walter Gotell wants to get the frontier ablaze and what better way to do it than get the British army fighting with a neighboring native leader. Gotell has his guys attacking the British army and also has his guys in British army Sepoy uniforms go into Mature's town and massacre the place, killing his wife and child.
I've seen this plot premise in many of our own westerns. A little bit of Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik is thrown in here with Aubrey's obvious attraction for Mature even though he's been doing terrible things to her people after he's been set on the warpath. Best in the film without a doubt is Anthony Newley as the corporal and bodyguard of Aubrey. He proves to be quite resourceful and has the best lines the script.
The final battle between Gotell's people and the British army is also well staged. But we've seen all of it before in many an American western. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. The Bandit of Zhobe is not an exception. So even with legendary action hero Victor Mature, British singing legend Anthony Newley and the pretty Anne Aubrey as the stars of this action historical drama, what you'll remember are the striking vistas, the sparking red British military uniforms and Mature's turbans, not the story or performances.
Even so it's been a decade since he played Samson, the still rugged Mature is able to hold command in a predictable story about an Indian muslim rebel who blames the British for the murder of his wife and child.
It's up to Aubrey to convince him that her British major father Norman Wooland wasn't responsible, and in fact, he's been told that her daughter has become a victim of Muslim forces lead by Walter Gotell and rescues her on more than one occasion.
The best performance is by Anthony Newley in a rather undefined part as a British corporal who gets a few really good lines but isn't strongly involved in the story other than being Wooland's right hand man and saves the day on a couple of occasions.
Director of photography Ted Moore keeps the widescreen camera focused on some gorgeous vistas, but the film sags in quite a few spots and never really presents strong characters in a way where you really care about them.
Decent colorful time passer, but one of many films with similar themes that probably look good on a big screen but are far from classics. Bunuel 22 March Victor Mature once again makes for a wooden and, having had his family murdered, humorless lead; incidentally, the narrative spends more time with the obligatory young couple Anthony Newley[! As usual with this company, reading the credits I could not help but notice how producer Albert R. Broccoli, story writer Richard Maibaum and cinematographer Ted Moore would be far more inspired when they set out to make the initial James Bond extravaganzas a mere 3 years later by the way, a regular of that series, Walter Gotell, is the chief villain here who mortally wounds Mature at the finale but is himself despatched by the now understanding Wooland.
For what it is worth, the biggest laugh this film got from the five-man audience who were watching it myself included, of course was when a heavy-set Indian henchman spat out what seemed like a bucketful of saliva at the British and clumsy soldier Anthony Newley almost slips in it!! The film could be called Zarak II as the plot is very similar to the original, and our hunted hero, a bandit with a price on his head, is seen this time blind for revenge
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