Campbell's Kingdom (1957)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Writers:

Robin Estridge (screenplay)
Hammond Innes (adaptation)

Release Date:

9 December 1957 (Sweden)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Western

Tagline:

Rugged Wildcatters...Fighting the Treacherous Might of the Canadian Rockies!

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Saloon | Oil Well | Truck | Dying Man | Canada

Cast

Dirk Bogarde	...	Bruce Campbell
Stanley Baker	...	Owen Morgan
Michael Craig	...	Boy Bladen
Barbara Murray	...	Jean Lucas
James Robertson Justice	...	James MacDonald
Athene Seyler	...	Miss Abigail
Robert Brown	...	Ben Creasy
John Laurie	...	Mac
Sid James	...	Tim (as Sidney James)
Mary Merrall	...	Miss Ruth
George Murcell	...	Max
Roland Brand	...	Driver
Finlay Currie	...	Old Man
Peter Illing	...	The Doctor
Maurice Kaufmann	...	Man at Golden Calf

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Finland:K-8 | Sweden:15 | UK:U

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivia:

Barbara Murray was cast as the female lead at short notice after the original choice dropped out because of health problems

Bruce Campbell's got more guts than the lot of you put together!

Well looking at some comments I thought it prudent to add mine in the defence of a remarkable film.

Unlike some location flicks and despite the efforts of dramatic scenery this film is failed by it's casting. A film about a Scot in Canada and not a Scot or Canadian accent in site!There is however a strong British cast assembled for filming abroad, a rare treat for Bogarde and co in post war austere Britain and a rare treat of course for the audience - colour! So please accept it for what it is. A rare colour British melodrama to cheer and entertain and perhaps re-awaken the declining film audience of the time.

If you are one that enjoyed the old days of an old black and white TV flickering away on a Sunday afternoon playing a comfort film then this is one to watch one day.

I really don't understand what James Robertson Justice is doing in this, despite his Scottish roots he performs out of character (typecasting above all is the problem here),perhaps he should have played to his strengths and played the part as a booming eccentric, a Major perhaps?!. All the rest give their best and stoic Dirk Bogarde of course is excellent!

I like the warm feeling this film brings to the watcher good may or may not triumph over evil here. I leave you to watch and enjoy the really well worked climatic end. Over sentimental at the conclusion? Perhaps! Glad it was made? Definitely! Enjoy a sweet film.

The end.