IMDb plot summary: An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh, where the Rajah holds them prisoner.
Directed by Alfred E. Green. Stars George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, and H.B. Warner.
The Green Goddess is a 1930 adventure movie set in a fictional South Asian kingdom. We follow a group of white travelers who end up getting stuck there, while the woman is ordered to marry the ruler and become the empress of the country. This is just a weird racist mess of movie. It's centered all around how the evil foreigners are kidnapping white women with evil mysticism and we have to protect them, and there's just not a lot of value to be gotten out of that. Most of the film is either tedious conversations repeating the same things over and over again, or ominous looking rituals meant to be terrifying solely in their unfamiliarity. I'm sure there are other aspects of this film that are slightly more noteworthy, given that the film had some popularity and won some awards, but the story was so unlikable that it all kind of melded together into an ugly mess for me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Green Goddess (1930)
lost to All Quiet on the Western Front (#1999 → #1994)
lost to Cry-Baby (#2984 → #2985)
beat End of Days (#3489 → #3701)
lost to Copying Beethoven (#3238 → #3215)
beat The Bone Collector (#3353 → #3415)
beat Petulia (#3300 → #3303)
lost to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (#3268 → #3247)
beat Danger: Diabolik (#3283 → #3286)
beat Africa Speaks! (#3275 → #3277)
lost to The Internship (#3271 → #3267)
lost to Annie Get Your Gun (#3273 → #3255)
beat When I Walk (#3274 → #3527)
📊 Ranked #3256/3994 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 19
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