Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

dan.adams Well, my old mother in law enjoyed it! I've given it a 5 because of the confusion it created(pour moi).Campbell's Kingdom is up there,in the Rockies.Nearby,a construction gang have built a dam-for hydro-electricity.The plan is to allow water to flow over the dam and into CK.Where they are finding oil. The construction team are into sabotage of the well diggers efforts.I got all that.It was when an inclinator was used to go up to the CK land I got confused.This mountain climbing device took us up into the snowy peaks of the Rockies.Where the prospective oil field was. Where then,was the dam that would flood the oil field?Well,it must have been even higher! It just didn't make sense.Later scenes showed the dam breaking and doing a bit of flooding.It was well and truly above the oil field. A rousing matinée tale but hard to digest geographically.

dbdumonteil A potboiler for highly talented Dirk Bogarde who succeeds in making his character endearing though.A "terminally-ill" man ,who,except for one sequence in which he faints ,may seem debatable for he leads a very active (and even dangerous in the last part) life;it's all clear in the end but this ending is a bit far-fetched! Stanley Baker is cast again as the villain (because he looks so much the part?).The word "kingdom" is justified ,for it's is located in an isolated place ,where Bogarde 's granddaddy was deceived ;the villains want to buy Bogarde's heritage,but the young man wants to try and find black gold on his hermitage ,helped by an old Scottish pal,a girl and her friend .To make the matters worse ,there is a dam and the movie ,ahead of its time ,ends as a disaster movie .Not a great role for Bogarde ,but watchable all the same.

jeuk I remember the praise being heaped on this film as well as on Dirk Bogard when it was first released. I was about nine years old, and never got to see this spectacle at that time. I saw it for the first time on Film 4 recently, and was quite impressed with the cinematography (It was 1957 British of course), but the casting I felt left a lot to be desired. Plenty of English (and Welsh) actors, with corny Canadian accents (Syd James, who was actually South African), and a terrible accent from one I thought could deliver. James Robertson Justice's effort was terrible. In fact, at an exciting part of the plot when my old hero was barking instructions to a beleaguered cast of mis-fits, his almost falsetto pitched voice reminded me of the Goon Show Bluebottle just before he was blown up! A typical British effort of that time.

chedward I agree there are many good , bad or indifferent movies but the point is surely , for movie collectors / fans is the enjoyment of the film by the individual. Brit movies never cost anything like the cost of other countries movies to make so the results of this movie are pretty fair for it's production costs. It's also a very clean movie ( language wise) and the story was by a very good writer. I read the book years before I saw the film and the film lived up to the original story concepts. For me it is a great pity that such Brit movies do not receive more attention from restorers and DVD producers. ( It's one I would certainly buy for my movie collection if it were available )