Film en VO :
Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) all grown up is fresh back from the U.S. So he does not have to have an English accent. His dying uncle points to a portrait of a 500 year old Vincey in a Prince Valiant haircut that is the spitting image of Leo. Then with old sci-fi equipment in the background he is told a tail of radiation and a woman that will live for ever; Doctor Watson (oops) Horace Holly is standing by.

For readers that are familiar with the book, you are in for some laughs. Because the Vincey explorer was only five hundred years ago all the majors can speak English (or pigeon English). There is a native scene right out of Kong and a second with a sacrifice and a ritual dance. Can it be that this is the same director, Producer Merian C. Cooper, known for King Kong?

On a more serious side the eternal questions posed in the book were replaces with a love story made for two.

Helen Gahagan is a rather unique name so I looked it up in Ephraim Kats « The Film Encyclopedia »; turns out among other things She was married to Melvyn Douglas, was the author of « The Eleanor Roosevelt we Remember » (1963). A Democratic congress woman. And was defeated by Richard Nixon in her bid or a Senate seat.