TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

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.

Christoph I watched the German dubbed version of the movie. It has a nice opening, great effects and a beautiful setting and goes well until they meet with "her". Then there is simply too much unnecessary dialogue instead of action :) I was wishing for some nice giant creature to appear... that would have made a great movie out of it. But unfortunately that didn't happen. I guess they were running out of money. The actors were quite OK, but nothing special. Apart from Nigel Bruce and Helen Mack maybe, who looked really nice as Tanya. On the other hand Helen Gahagan as "she" seemed miscast to me. The remake from 1965 was slightly better in my opinion. Overall I rate it 5/10.

Sean Jump "She" is an adventure film, but in fact is much more than that appellation might imply. The script deals with the nature of love and the lengths to which that powerful emotion might drive us, and it also explores the way in which ultimate power unfailingly corrupts. Production values are simply exquisite for 1935, and the film still looks better than most similarly-scaled movies of today. Helen Gahagan is very effective as the title character--Ayesha, or She Who Must Be Obeyed--while Randolph Scott is convincing as the movie's protagonist and the object of Ayesha's dubious affections. The gorgeous Helen Mack is Ayesha's rival for Scott's heart, and if her mortal's love lacks the awesome power offered by Ayesha's it is also truer and frankly more human. The climax is tragic but just, and the whole story echoes with the resonance of legend.

bkoganbing It might have been nice if RKO had gone through with the original budget for She with color and everything else they planned for it. It might even had meant a more substantial film career for Helen Gahagan Douglas.As it was Helen Gahagan Douglas left the screen and performing altogether for politics and a seat in Congress which she gave up to run against Richard Nixon for the Senate. The two Representatives set some new low standards for dirty campaigning, it wasn't completely one sided, but Helen coined the name 'Tricky Dick' for Nixon which clung to him the rest of his life.But in She, Douglas made an indelible impression as the ageless beauty from H. Rider Haggard's novel who tries to win the love of Randolph Scott, the descendant of a love several generations removed. It's on the quest for that ancestor that Randolph Scott and Nigel Bruce set off for the far reaches of Siberia where the widow of that ancestor left a journal telling of a lost civilization in the Arctic, built around an eternal flame promising eternal life for those who step into it. Along the way Scott and Bruce pick up Helen Mack and the three of them literally stumble on the cave entrance that leads to this fabulous place run by the thousand year old beauty Helen Gahagan.Randolph Scott is the stalwart hero that you see in many of his westerns. His American accent is explained by saying his branch of the family took off for America a generation or two back. Nigel Bruce is far from Doctor Watson, he's quite the two fisted action hero here, an aspect I never thought I'd see.For reasons I don't understand, the location was changed from Africa to the Arctic. Especially because RKO had that jungle set that was used for so many of their classics like, The Most Dangerous Game, King Kong, and Five Came Back, I don't understand the change. Maybe someone thought the jungle was starting to look familiar. This adaption of She contains all of H. Rider Haggard's sense of high adventure and drama. Unfortunately it lost money and killed the film career and started the political career of Helen Gahagan. It remains today though, not a bad film, the best known version of an often filmed tale.

disdressed12 this movie is very stunning visually.there is a lot of spectacle involved.the movie is very stylish,but for me lacks much substance or depth.it does get cheesy at times,breaking into weird dances that to me look ridiculous,even absurd.i thought the acting was very good,and i think the movie had a good moral at the end:the search for eternal youth does not end the way we want it to,meaning there are consequences for such obsession.this ideal is even more relevant today,as we try everything to slow down the aging process,hoping to eventually reverse aging sometime in the future.but there are many ramifications,both socially and economically to consider.anyway,i certainly didn't hate the movie,but i didn't love it either.it has its merits,and also its drawbacks.i think "She" deserves 6*/10