I laughed at some of the corny setups and jokes and loved the animals. However, this movie made me rethink what passed for family movies back in the 60's (I was a kid then but I'd never seen this movie before today--I wasn't really into animals at 12 years old.
Excellent family-oriented animal adventure film with plenty of human interaction and comedy. Marshall Thompson is Doctor "Daktari" Marsh Tracy, head of an animal study compound in Africa.
There are many wonderful animal-themed family movies out there, but this is not one of them. About the movie in general: The script is poor, the characters are stereotyped and undeveloped, and the acting is poor, except Richard Haydn (Mr.
Pretty bad family film about a research group in the jungle studying animal behavior. They then come across a cross-eyed lion and make an attempt to cure him.
A family of great white hunters living in Africa have their village visited by the titular cross-eyed lion and wacky animal Disney hijinks ensue. It's nothing you haven't already seen dozens of times before, but as usual, Disney pretty consistently makes enjoyable entertainment that's hard to resist.
This is a good family film!I only want to say that the previous reviewer is not correct.
I admit this movie was not a fantastic watch, but it was mildly amusing for the time and era of the movie. If you are going to critique I think you should carry on a subjective opinion based on not just whether the acting/directing/writing, etc.
This was a movie from Ivan Tors Productions, the same company that brought the world family entertainment (often centered around animals) like "Flipper". Unlike "Flipper", "Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion" has more or less been forgotten, and it's easy to see why.
I can well believe that this little movie served as the basis for a TV series, as it has everything that TV audiences like, including lots of forced comedy involving shots of animals (including a funny chimp and a lion), caricatures of a British schoolteacher (played with such over- pompous skill by Richard H that he actually gets a few laughs) and a pukka colonel, plus two clean-cut do-gooder Yanks, a teenage daughter, subservient servants, and last but least, a no-good German villain. This yaketty-yak script is rounded out with minimal production values, including totally boring direction, humdrum photography, obvious stock footage and a bit of forced action with obvious, speeded-up camera- work.
