I have little to say about this film. The dialogue is pitiful. Sophia Loren screeches, and Rossano Brazzi is going through the motions of a tired role: a man in search of treasure. As for John Wayne he is at his most intolerable and almost as loud in his own way as Loren. It is a pity because this cast, popular in the 1950's could manage better in less cliched films. Brazzi in ' Summer Madness ', Loren almost believable as a Greek in the entertaining ' Boy on a Dolphin ' and Wayne wonderfully subdued in ' The High and the Mighty '. These were all immensely popular mainstream films of the 50's. This film is a turkey in that good year of cinema, 1957. But if it is cold and raining and you are trapped indoors the scenery is watchable and if you are not too discerning it could appeal, but please close off your brain before watching. Henry Hathaway directed and his slapdash approach to his subject matter is lethargic to say the least, and even the lost city is in the wrong place. The soundtrack music is mediocre.
Review of Legend of the Lost
