Kids humanise pirates but boy, is that way off the mark. To this I would add, ".and faintly odd sub-textual readings abound for the broken off and perverse part of the family that likes that sort of thing." You can take A High Wind In Jamaica as a Disney movie – if you want to read it that way. The press release says ".pirate adventure classic for the whole family." Uh, not quite. In a later interview, Mackendrick acknowledged that it even had a curious aftertaste of "Shirley Temple singing 'Good Ship Lollipop' while dismembering a puppy."Īlexander Mackendrick by Monica Garrido for Senses of Cinema * Moreover, the film had an atmosphere that bordered on the bizarre and morbid. A UK DVD review of A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by CamusĬhildren, in Mackendrick's work, can be dangerous and nasty creatures that prove more harmful than their youth could even account for.
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