She

Crafted by many of the same players who made the original King Kong several years earlier, She is an adventure film filled with style, grandiosity and color. It’s all the more colorful as it’s presented in a restored, newly colorized edition (as well as its original B&W) conceived and co-produced by special-effects guru Ray Harryhausen. It adds some serious luster to the tale of dashing Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his team of explorers who travel to a remote glacier in search of an immortal flame but are captured by She (Helen Gahagan), the powerful and beautiful ruler of a subterranean kingdom. Featuring avalanches, cannibals and hundreds of exotically clad extras, She is a serial-style movie that delivers cheesy fun, packaged here in a handsomely supplemented two-disc edition.

Shelf Talk: Lovers of early adventure cinema and effects-driven period films will be very excited about the restoration, colorization and re-release of this near-classic. And the fact that beloved Harryhausen worked on the colorization (just as he did on his own recently re-issued 20 Million Miles to Earth) makes it even more appealing to the cinephile audience. But appeal outside that core fanbase will be limited.