great movie

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2006)

First it must be emphasized the difference in genre & era about this movie. Later movies ( the "Platoon", "Full metal jacket", etc ) were shot primarily to ENTERTAIN. Of course the are "messages", but you can detect messages even in "Starship Troopers" or "The golden voyage of Sinbad". This movie comes from an era when the mass entertaining value was minimal. It looks & feels more like a war documentary than a "movie". There is no bothering with style, no SFX complacency, no starlets overacting. Of course some acting looks today overboard, but remember that was 1930. I still think they had a better way to film-making back then than most lurid movies of today or fimmakers splurging millions hiring crowds of stand-ins & shooting at eleven exotic locations.