Some are medicinal-it’s said that after childbirth, a woman should mix the resin with water and drink it down. He looks after the nearby dragon’s blood trees, and once or twice a year he harvests their resin. His extended family, which now numbers nineteen, live in a small community in the center of the island, far from the coast and surrounded by rich, fertile soil. Mohammed Abdullah has known the trees his whole life. The trunk is thick and gnarled but, when sliced open, it bleeds a resin of deep crimson the blood, perhaps, of the injured dragon. These skyward-facing leaves collect condensation from the mists that roll along the clifftops and high plateaus of the interior. It’s an odd and alien-looking tree, with thick, knotted branches sprawling out to form an umbrella-shaped covering. One version of the local legend surrounding its origin says it grew from the blood of two brothers fighting to the death another that it was created from the blood of a dragon that was injured fighting an elephant. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Īnother popular export was what is now the flagship species of the island: the dragon’s blood tree. Look how beautiful it is, and how much there is to eat. “This place is a paradise,” he says, as if stating a self-evident fact. He spends the daylight hours wandering the shoreline with homemade fishing nets, then drying and organizing-and eating-the wide variety of his catch. “We argue over what to watch on television,” he complains. His wife and six children live there, and he goes back each evening. Now he also has a house in the nearby town. ![]() His mother was born in this cave, and he too was raised in it. He calls himself Abdullah the Caveman, and that’s partially true. “I do have a sweater,” he says, “but I don’t like it. Around his waist is a hand-woven orange fouta-the wrap-around male skirt that is traditional for many Yemeni men. Abdullah Aliyu paces slowly up and down along the triangular mouth of the cave. In fact you often think you're watching some pantomime version of ALLADIN. This type of lazy plotting grates It should also be pointed out that despite using Oriental actors as Japanese guards the two main characters are played by British actors Patrick Wymark and Michael Ripper both of whom are absolutely laughable. Now he knows that a female agent is in he area because she's been spotted by villagers but there's no way he'd know that she's made contact with one of the prisoners. For example the lazy plotting where the Japanese commanding officer proclaims that at least one of the prisoners knows about this female agent. True people can hide in plain sight but as it stands here it's a ridiculous idea There's other annoying aspects to the story. Yeah it's stupid but perhaps if the story had been developed more and was more thought out it wouldn't seem so ridiculous. After just watched the film I'm not surprised it's obscure A major problem with it is the entirely ridiculous premise - " Female agent gets shot down in Malaya 1944 and in POW camp ". It's a film I've never seen broadcast on telly and Mike insinuates it's only been shown once late at night in the 1970s. ![]() ![]() Considering this film is 50 years old you'd expect it to have more than 50 votes and one comment.
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