Zoo in Budapest (1933), directed by Rowland V. Lee is being shown on TCM early Monday morning on 12-6-10 at 3:45am ET. We have discussed this film in the past
here, but this may be the first time that many people have a chance to see this rare film starring
Gene Raymond as a man who has grown up in the zoo. He's not normally an actor whose later work is palatable to me, but this may be one of his better characterizations. A tremulous
Loretta Young appears as an orphan teetering on adulthood who seeks refuge in this isolated scrap of nature. This Fox film also has some great cinematography by
Lee Garmes, which has a European atmosphere somewhere between a fable and an indictment against the world's indifference to the beauty within it. The movie seems as though it might have been intended as a silent.
I hope you'll comment about it if you have seen it.
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