Green Mansions (film)

Green Mansions is a 1959 American romantic adventure film directed by Mel Ferrer. It is based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, the film starred Audrey Hepburn who at the time was married to Ferrer as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Anthony Perkins. Also appearing in the film were Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa and Henry Silva. The score was by Heitor VillaLobos and Bronislau Kaper.

A young man named Abel Anthony Perkins narrowly escapes Caracas, Venezuela after it is overtaken by rebels. He decides to seek revenge, as his father, the former Minister of War, was killed. After getting supplies, he takes a canoe to the far shore, where he is nearly killed by a jaguar, but is saved by the native, Indianlike people.He decides to prove his bravery by not moving once he sees the chief, Runi Sessue Hayakawa and telling his story. The Indians are impressed, and do not kill him. After a while, Runis son Kuako Henry Silva, who has lived with the missionaries of Caracas and speaks English, tells Abel that Runi has agreed so long as he does not harm them, they will not harm him. Abel agrees, and befriends Kuako, who tells him of the Bird Woman, who killed his older brother, and that their tribe is not allowed in the nearby forest. ........

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