![]() Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to ki. Oboler’s film, based on the true story of the Tsavo man-eaters, is about two man-eating killer lions holding up the building of an African railway in Kenya when the British railroad workers are either eaten or scared off – until an American hero, head engineer Jack Hayward (Robert Stack), saves the day. British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. The development of cinema technologies over the past four decades has been the result of a complex interaction between industrial needs (in both production. Warner Brothers used the Natural Vision process to shoot House of Wax and premiered it on 10 April 1953 as ‘the first 3D release by a major studio’ but Columbia beat them by two days with Man in the Dark. Nevertheless the other studios promptly their own 3D films. The World’s First Feature Length Motion Picture in Natural Vision 3-Dimension, Bwana Devil posters proclaimed. Despite being a stonking success with audiences and earning a huge $2.7 million in rentals in North America in 1953 and a total of $5 million, studio United Artists recorded a loss of $200,000. When his 1952 movie, Bwana Devil, was released (a based-on-true-events story about man-eating lions written, produced and directed by Oboler himself), Natural Vision was a huge part of the promotional campaign. Arch Oboler - Bwana Devil by Arch Oboler, released 11 August 1998 1. Bwana Devil is a grade B type motion picture about the attempt to complete a railroad in Africa against the threat of man eating lions. However, that is where both almost all of its interest and all of its excitement end.įilmed with the Natural Vision 3D system, it sparked the first 3D movie craze. ‘The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!’ Writer-producer-director Arch Oboler’s 1952 adventure thriller has the enormous distinction of being the very first 3D sound feature movie in English and the first 3D film in colour. Lt Col John Henry Patterson was the real historical figure, who in 1898 led a British project to construct a railway. Bwana Devil * (1952, Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 5198 Bwana Devil, with Robert Stack playing Bob Hayward, was sourced from the same historical events as The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996, with Val Kilmer as John Henry Patterson, and 2007’s Prey, with Peter Weller as Tom Newman.
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