Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 22, 1958

The Naked Earth (20th Century-Fox] may come as an unpleasant shock to Richard Todd fans. Actor Todd is well-known as the movie Robin Hood, romping boyishly about Sherwood Forest, bunging arrows at the Sheriff of Nottingham and dimpling at sight of Maid Marian. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out that he is shacked up with a Marseille whore in a thatched hut in Uganda.

Todd's steamy vis-a-vis (Juliette Greco) has abandoned her profession in her home town to better herself as the hired partner of a would-be bushland farmer. The crocodiles carry...

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