Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

andrejedi-1 I read the book and watched the movie and I must say the movie did more harm to the book than gaining it attention. What was original a gem of literature is turned into a cliché of white man saving, or trying to save, a natural paradise. It ended up a farce. Of course, Audrey was wonderful, as she always was. But the adaptation was so bad that the original message, of relationship between human kind and environment and the danger of the former on the latter, was totally lost. Of course, the beautiful description of the land in the book is nowhere to be found. I strongly advise those who are interested to go and read the book itself. Understandably, this film was made in 1959 but the script is really so horrible that even the presence of Audrey could not save it.

mark.waltz It's the early 20th Century down in the jungles of Columbia, and a young man (Anthony Perkins) escapes from a revolution. He ends up being befriended by a group of natives, even though only one of them (educated by missionaries) speaks English. They believe Perkins has magical powers (because he owns a cigarette lighter) and order him to kill a mysterious girl in the near-by forest. This girl (Audrey Hepburn) is a waif-like creature with mystical qualities that they believe is a witch. Raised by her grandfather (Nehemian Persoff), she falls in love with Perkins and longs to leave the forest to return to her mother's hometown.There's not really a lot of story except the apparent conflict between Hepburn, Persoff and the natives outside the village. The majority of the film is the romance between Perkins and Hepburn, a bit of philosophizing and the truth about Hepburn's identity. But the last third explodes into questions about everything you've been wondering about up until that point and the journey outside the forest where all will be revealed. Most people will be more enthralled by the colorful painting like photography, shots of some rare creatures (most interestingly an aardvark) and the National Geographic like nature shots. Who Hepburn is will be the film's biggest mystery in this film similar in theme to "Lost Horizon" and "The Portrait of Jennie".

la_lupa123 I LOVED THIS MOVIE ,Anthony Perkins is a total god ,and i can't even start on Audrey's magical charm. it would be like a great anniversary and celebration of the past away actor and the novel .This movie should to be released on DVD ,since it would be an awful waste of such history. Is there a way to release this movie on DVD? we should start a petition to the company for its release ,for a time honored keep's sake!. The story is so enchanting a deserves much more credit than it has been given. It was thrilling and romantic giving the audience a sense of hope in then end of the film. There are several great oldies that should be released on DVD such as this movie ,to honor the actors and their work. Green mansions deserves to be released on DVD ,hopefully with special features such as a biography on the late Anthony Perkins ,and commentary on the book.

Jim Colyer I was 13 in 1959 but was unaware of this film when it came out. Of course, I knew about Anthony Perkins and Audrey Hepburn in those days. I became aware of Green Mansions when I read the novel at age 23. It was after that, that I saw the film on television. I was captivated. It has everything: romance, adventure, politics and mysticism. Audrey as Rima the bird girl is mesmerizing. Her innocence is as much a part of the 1950s as it is Hudson's nature girl. Nature pervades this film. The South American rainforest envelops us. It is an exercise in green. Green Mansions is a work of art, beautiful to behold, yet one step ahead of raw reality at all times. Both Perkins and Hepburn died relatively young. Perkins, a bi-sexual, died of AIDS.