Matthew_Lucas

13Sep11

The first film produced by Lev Kuleshov's Cine-lab, THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR. WEST IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS is an occasionally goofy but mostly wry comedy about a hapless American tourist who expects to find barbarians in Socialist Russia, where he is taken advantage of by a group of disgraced nobility out for money. A bit of heavy handed propaganda at the end doesn't negate its naive charm.