Cry of the Penguins

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

United Kingdom

1971

101 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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DIR Al Viola, Arne Sucksdorff, Roy Boulting

DP Edward Scaife, Harry Waxman

CAST John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton, Thorley Walters, Judy Campbell, Joss Ackland, Nicholas Pennell, Avril Angers, Cyril Luckham, Sally Geeson, Brian Oulton, Salmaan Peer, Hugh Moxey, Norman Claridge, John Comer, Marianne Stone, Amanda Steer, Andy Robins, Geraldine Sherman, Lew Luton, Burnell Tucker, Richard Bond, Margaret Lacey, Jumoke Debayo

A young london biologist spends most of his time pursuing girls rather than pursuing science. When the opportunity to go to the Antarctic to study a colony of penguins presents itself he agrees to go, not so much for the benefit of science but rather to impress the girl he has recently been chasing. The longer he stays in the Antarctic, however, the more he becomes truly interested in the penguins fight for survival. When the time to go home finally arrives, he is a changed man with a totally new outlook on life. —IMDb

Director

Arne Sucksdorff

Arne Sucksdorff, (born February 3, 1917, Stockholm, Sweden—died May 4, 2001, Stockholm), Swedish motion-picture director important in the post-World War II revival of the Swedish cinema because of his internationally acclaimed sensitivity in photographing nature. His patiently photographed flowers, insects, birds, and animals are composed into films in which the rhythm of nature is dominant and man is only one of nature’s creatures.

Sucksdorff studied natural sciences and then turned to painting at the Reihmann Art School in Berlin, but his main interest was photography. After his first short film, Augustirapsodi (1939), won national awards, he was offered a contract by Svensk Filmindustri (1939–53), Sweden’s leading studio.

Sucksdorff’s early shorts were marked by the love of nature that had been traditionally characteristic of the finest Swedish silent films. Outstanding among them were: Trut (1944; “The Gull”), an account of a Baltic seabird… read more

Roy Boulting

The twin brother of John Boulting, producer/director Roy Boulting spent the bulk of his film career in partnership with his sibling. Both men attended Toronto’s McGill University, both entered the British film industry in the early 1930s, and both teamed to form Charter Films in 1937. In most of their subsequent film projects including Thunder Rock (1942), Desert Victory (1943), Single-Handed (1953), Brothers in Law (1957) and Twisted Nerve (1968), John produced and Roy directed. Their positions were reversed in films like Brighton Rock (1947) and Heavens Above! (1963). In 1963, the Boultings joined the board of the directors of the flagging British Lion Film Corporation, and have been credited with bringing that sleeping giant back to life. While both brothers evinced a preoccupation with droll wit and satire, they were adept at virtually any film genre. Evidently, it was Roy Boulting who enjoyed the most active social life; among his six wives was actress Hayley Mills. —britmovie… read more