Cat. No. BVD 20102: JIM REEVES ~ KIMBERLEY JIM - DELUXE EDITION. BEAR FAMILY BVD 20102. (IMPORT).
1 AVAILABLE. NOW $33.95. WAS $39.95
DELUXE EDITION - WIDESCREEN VERSION PLUS FULL SCREEN VERSION PLUS AUDIO SONGBOOK IN AFRIKAANS AND KIMBERLEY JIM SONGBOOK.
COLOUR RUNNING TIME: NOT INDICATED.
REVIEW: Superb deluxe version from Bear Family Records in Germany including a number of features not included in the local version released by Umbrella in Australia such as both screen versions and audio songbooks and a lot more expensive.
Jim Reeves was extremely popular in South Africa and during a tour there he was offered the lead role in this movie (his first and only feature film). Kimberley Jim stars Jim Reeves as a carefree, guitar strumming con artist from Tennessee who finds his way to Kimberley, South Africa during the diamond rush of the late 19th century. With fellow fraudster Gerry Bates (Clive Parnell), Jim gets up to a lot of trouble, robbing the locals of their hard-won cash through a series of lowly scams. But, when Jim and Gerry fall for a sexy bar singer (Madeline Usher) and daughter of the mine owner they swindled in a poker game, they soon change their evil ways, staging a night of wine, dance and song (including some rousing numbers from Reeves) to support the struggling community. Now heroes in Kimberley, the carousers have to decide whether to stay or set off again for more romance and adventure.
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