Good movie. But how child rearing has changed! In Outpost in Malaya, a young boy sees his mother & dad machine gunning native rebels, watches 2 loved family servants & scores of rebels die, & when the violence ends, the dad smilingly says, He's tired, but he'll sleep in the train. Next day when they send the boy off on a train to take him to a boat to bring him to school in London everyone is smiling like the night before was trivial. In our day, the kid would have a brace of psychiatrists on his case.
While they are preparing for the attack they know is coming, the boy finds a cobra in the bathroom and climbs the wall to get away from it. His friend brings in a mongoose who battles the cobra to the death for several tense minutes on screen, then the boy and his friend skip out with the 6 foot long dead snake to show all their friends. At another point, his mother is attacked by a machete-wielding native. Ho hum. Just another day in the life of a rubber baron's son.
While they are preparing for the attack they know is coming, the boy finds a cobra in the bathroom and climbs the wall to get away from it. His friend brings in a mongoose who battles the cobra to the death for several tense minutes on screen, then the boy and his friend skip out with the 6 foot long dead snake to show all their friends. At another point, his mother is attacked by a machete-wielding native. Ho hum. Just another day in the life of a rubber baron's son.