Kriss
Kriss
| 25 November 1932 (USA)
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The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which the women of Bali are known to have.

Reviews
Steineded How sad is this?
Cleveronix A different way of telling a story
Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
psteier A prince falls in love with a low class girl, but cannot marry her. His scheming sister gets goona-goona (a narcotic plant mixture) and feeds it to the girl. The prince rapes the girl while she is drugged, but leaves behind his kris (ceremonial knife), leading to tragedy.The story itself is not much and can be hard to follow. This is one of the last films released with an unsynchronized sound track. It has titles, as well as a professorial narrator. The music is a mixture of Balinese and Western, played with both Balinese and Western instruments.The views of Bali of the time are quite interesting and there are a few minutes of Balinese dancing.The film was originally released in two color (red/green) Technicolor, but some of the prints are black and white.