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19530132 Tropic Zone (Tubi) (A Fiesta 7)

An allegory, unintentionally, of America’s Imperialism. See pointless review below.

THE FULL FIESTA 13 for January 1953

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19530107 White Fire (Plex)

(A Fiesta 7)

Usually when an American soldier has a four-day leave in London, we’all get a movie filled with drunken debauchery. Bring on the scantily clad…

Gregor has a four-day leave & all he has to do is keep his brother out of The Hangman’s Noose on a framed crime in three days.

Our hero Gregor has a hair-trigger anger problem and beats up a few people in his quest, making a few enemies & slowing him down. A little bit of honey would have cut 20 minutes out of the movie.

Some nice twists & a plot that demands speed.

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(A Fiesta 6)

Ronald Ray-Gun plays American Imperialism in this unintentional indictment of Colonialism. He’s arrogant & a know-it-all. He lives off other’s largess.

Redhead Rhonda represents Older American Colonialism in the Third World. She runs a Banana Farm & has for a few decades, but is failing.

Rockford’s Dad is America’s Pal, a pilot who’s one willing to do America’s (Ray-gun’s) dirty work. He loves Estelita, but Ray-gun’s top dog.

Estelita plays a sexy, nubile, innocent South American country. She deeply loves Ray-Gun and buys his gaslighting about American values and future promises. Another sap hypnotized by The American Dream.

There’s a French Guy, representing Europe’s expansionism, who already runs the South American banana industry & crushes competitors. Old school Imperialism reeks of violence. He sabotages Rhonda’s banana supply, almost bankrupting her.

Redhead Rhonda took over her dad’s banana farm and was trying to soften the face of Imperialism for the locals by creating a social structure. She had a carnival for the worker’s kids. There is a maternal vibe Rhonda has with the islanders, she also believes in America’s moral imperative that American ideals are how you improve a society.,

Ray-gun shows up on the island with Rockford’s Dad & Estelita after causing a coup in another South African country. Ray-gun is on the run for causing the coup.

Ray-gun meets Redhead Rhonda and helps her rebuild her failing farm. You can see Ray-gun fall in love with the creamy redhead. However, he’s still stringing along Estelita, who gives all her love to Ray-gun.

American know-how & Ray-gun revives Redhead’s banana farm. To escape the French Guy, Ray-gun gets all the banana farmers to band together and sell their bananas to a giant American company, Tropical.

Ray-gun dumps sweet Estelita for Rhonda. We’d rather see a movie that followed around Estelita, her crazy adventures and songs.

The movie really is a blueprint for how to drain and take-over a small country through economic means. Tropic Zone portrays banana farming benefits by selling out to the large American company. This company, Tropic, demands much higher production to even accept the small farms for the same prices. More work, less pay.

Tropical Zone could have turned away from American propaganda by just having all the farmers band together and form their own co-op. Have their own agency.

But this is America. So, it’s assumed other countries want to be controlled by The U.S. It’s the American Way.

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