Another is "
The Naked Jungle" (1954) with Charlton Heston [Christopher Leiningen] and a young (32 years) and absolutely yummy Eleanor Parker [Joanna Leiningen] (oh la la).
The story is set in the South American jungle, where Langdon grows cocoa for making chocolate. Being so busy, he is unable so he orders a mail order bride (in the older sense, being married by proxy) to marry. He plays the physically brave guy, but he rejects her because she had been married before. This created one of the best lines in this movie;
"If you knew anything about music, you’d know that the best piano is one that’s been played."
Ouch!
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I also like the following interchange;
Christopher: The jungle's corrosive. It swallows up everything.
Joanna : Even men, sometimes.
Christopher: You've been reading…Joanna?
Joanna : I found it in your library. Poetry.
Christopher: I don't read much myself. I bought all those books by weight. Eight hundred pounds of books is what I ordered.
Joanna : Whoever selected them for you has very good taste. It was you, wasn't it? Why lie about it? Are you afraid I might think you weak for reading poetry?
Christopher: Perhaps. (pause) As Fontaine says somewhere in there, "Each man is three men: "What he thinks he is, what others think he is and what he really is."
Joanna : And which Leiningen is this?
Christopher: The last. The real Leiningen.
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and...
Christopher : You surprise me. You're very beautiful, intelligent, accomplished... There must be something wrong with you. I'm not that lucky, to get a perfect woman, just like that, out of the grab bag. There's something wrong somewhere.
Joanne: I thought you didn't like me. I thought you were disappointed in me. And instead, you're afraid of me.
Christopher : You think so?
Joanne: You're looking for a fault in me, anything so you can ignore me.
Christopher : You know a lot about men, don't you?
Joanna (trying to ignore him): Something nice-looking to go with the rest of the furniture. Brought up the river with great difficulty, just keep it dusted and see that the termites don't get at it. That's the kind of a wife you wanted. Instead, you got a woman. And you're afraid of me.
Christopher : I said, you know a lot about men.
Joanna : More than you know about women.
Ouch!! 
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or him summarising
You'd better see exactly what you're up against down here. Come with me, madam. Without these locks, my whole plantation would be six feet under the river, where I got it from. It took me five years to get a foothold here. I started with acres and four men. I nearly forgot the English language in that time. I was twenty years old.
My irrigation moat. Built by men who had never seen one in their lives. I had men by that time.I used to lose two or three a week. Headhunters. This is what we get. (shows her the cocoa beans)
Eight hundred Indians working for me on nearly acres of river bottom, eaten by flies, worms, lice. With a half a dozen diseases men get in the jungle, all for that. So that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans. Go ten miles in any direction from here and it's civilised. But go ten paces beyond where I stopped and you're in the bush, the living jungle, where no man has a name and the only law is to stay alive, even if you live like a beast.
In the jungle, man's just another animal.
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or braking the ice…
Christopher : You were right about that piano. It's much better when it's played.
Joanna : It needs tuning.
Christopher : Tell me about women.
Joanna : Where shall I begin?
Christopher : Anywhere. I find the subject interesting.
Joanna : Well, there's very little to tell, really. There are men and there are women. They're like, oh, spoons. If they are alike, they go together quite well. Tell me about spoons.
Christopher : I do believe you're developing a sense of humour.
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or, when facing the soldier ants - the Marabunta - who are just about to wipe out his while livelihood...
Joanna : Christopher?
Christopher : Come in. You might as well see this. Caught him this afternoon. He's an advance scout of some kind. Handsome devil, isn't he? I've been studying him all evening. The face of my enemy. Who knows? Perhaps he's been studying me.
Joanna :Even alone they look frightening.
Christopher : Well, where they go, no life is left but their own. That's what we're up against. If I were a sensible man, Joanna, what would I do? Fight or run?
Joanna : You have to fight. A man like you doesn't run. In any case, you're not a sensible man. You wouldn't have chosen a wife by mail if you were.
Christopher : I'm beginning to think the only sensible thing I ever did was send for you.
Joanna : Why do you say that now?
Christopher : Maybe because it's too late.
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or when facing the end…
Christopher : I never leave you now. For whatever it's worth to you, now that I have nothing else to give… ...I love you.
Joanna : That's all I've ever wanted. We'll start from here. This is where we meet, Christopher.
Christopher : And where we say goodbye too. The ants are still out there…
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Sadly, they don't make movies like this anymore!
IMO it is possibly the sexiest movie of all time. Worst Eleanor Parker does not even take her clothes off!
COMMENTS:
- The title music of this film is great, composed by Russian Daniele Amfitheatrof (1901-1883) He wrote the music to the 1946 Walt Disney's children movie "Song of the South", with the song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" winning an Oscar. It was condemned for its racist overtones to African Americans. It was shown in Sydney on 15 May 1947, and was reasonably popular. Amfitheatrof also made the title and incidental music for the TV series "The Time Tunnel', which I remember for some odd reason. He did many others movies scores in US films during WII.
- Eleanor Parker was also in "The Sound of Music" playing the nastie Baroness Elsa Schraeder. This was one of her last film roles. Took away some of the mystique for me, sadly! Pity.
- She appears with some nice 'cigarette card' photos of movie stars that was made by the studio "Träume aus Hollywood". No. 103 http://film.virtual-history.com/cigc...p?seriesid=203 (See attachment)