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A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.A womanizing biologist studies life in a colony of penguins.
Salmaan Peerzada
- Ahaz Khan
- (as Salmaan Peer)
- Directors
- Alfred Viola
- Roy Boulting(uncredited)
- Writers
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- TriviaAl Viola was dismissed from this movie and replaced by Producer Roy Boulting. Swedish documentary filmmaker Arne Sucksdorf had started filming the penguin footage in the Antarctic, but it failed to blend with the studiobound sequences. Boulting then brought his wife Hayley Mills on-board, which further added to this movie's escalating budget. This was one of the box-office disappointments, which led to Bryan Forbes' dismissal as head of EMI Films.
- GoofsWhen the first penguin arrives and slides on its belly towards Forbush, there are already other penguin belly tracks in the snow.
- Quotes
Richard Forbush: [to the predatory skuas] Retribution is near my fine feathered friends. Make no mistake about that.
Richard Forbush: [as he attacks the skuas with a catapult] You've asked for it, now you'll get it! Now it's your turn! You hear me? Go on, get out! GET OUT! ALL OF YOU! Die, damn you! Die! DO YOU HEAR ME? DIE! DIE!
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I love John Hurt!
I saw this movie on TV, under the title "Cry of the Penguins", sometime around 1980. I was in high school at the time and my young heart was breaking as I watched the character of Forbush struggling against the elements to study the penguins. I became strangely obsessed with John Hurt and began following his career. It seemed like every time I turned on the TV I would see him on something. I Claudius, The Naked Civil Servant, Crime and Punishment. (I watched a lot of PBS in those days.) Of course the Elephant Man was the ultimate trip. I was blown away by his versatile acting abilities, and couldn't understand why he wasn't very well known in this country! Although I am married and 43 years old now, my heart still beats a little faster when I see or hear of him. And I still remember how I felt watching him struggle to save those penguins!
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- tonilee-1
- Aug 13, 2005
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- Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
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- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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