The 1957 docu-drama Paradiso Terrestre, the result of expeditions into four continents to uncover for the camera the rituals of love, from penguin courtship in the Antarctic to a fertility ritual with "sacred love oil" in the Cameroons to displays of shark-fighting machismo in Tahiti, was co-directed by Luciano Emmer (1950's Sunday in August with Marcello Mastrionni) and first-time feature film director Robert Enrico, later known for his award-winning adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." The U.S. version, retitled by Pacemaker Pictures, was narrated by George Bryan, who had done the same for the 1955 Italian documentary about Southeast Asia, Lost Continent.
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