Whiplash scene
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:07 am
Anyone ever see this one?
Whiplash
Australian TV series
Fire Rock
The introduction contains geological data about Australia's bubbling hot springs.
A white man enters a sacred cave, full of primitive paintings on the walls. He never comes out alive.
He turns out to be David Clauson, one of Cobb's finest agents, so Chris Cobb rides in to Kuwala to help his wife Ella. On her hand is her wedding present, an opal ring. Apparently David and his brother Walter had been in search of treasure in The Turumba, but the legend almost holds true, "no white man that's been there has ever got back alive." So you can't blame Walter for not wanting to go there in quest of David. But he does, along with Ella, Chris and Dan reluctantly agreeing to their joining in the search. An aborigine tracker leads the way, at a shilling a day.
There are some impressive sights and sounds of The Burning Land, it's "like looking at The Pit of Hell." "We stay here, we die," warns our tracker. That night they camp by trees, Dan rightly perceiving that Ella is "trouble." But Chris must guess, for there she is, making eyes at him!
After some scouting alone, Chris finds David's body. End of quest. But Walter meanwhile has entered the cave and greedily snatched a giant opal. That will anger the aborigines, though for the moment Walter has got out successfully despite the legend. But he soon falls ill, is it superstition? Or as Chris suspects, poisoning?
"Spirit people punish," explains the tracker, in support of the former theory. But Chris is searching for berries, antidote to the suspected poison. While he's gone, Ella exposes her true motives, she poisoned Walter so she can get rich. She only married her husband for similar reasons. She gallops off with her prize, but meets a poetic end as she drops her opal, and trying to recover it in quicksand, is gobbled up herself, "a horrible way to die."
"Spirit people punish," repeats our tracker.
Whiplash
Australian TV series
Fire Rock
The introduction contains geological data about Australia's bubbling hot springs.
A white man enters a sacred cave, full of primitive paintings on the walls. He never comes out alive.
He turns out to be David Clauson, one of Cobb's finest agents, so Chris Cobb rides in to Kuwala to help his wife Ella. On her hand is her wedding present, an opal ring. Apparently David and his brother Walter had been in search of treasure in The Turumba, but the legend almost holds true, "no white man that's been there has ever got back alive." So you can't blame Walter for not wanting to go there in quest of David. But he does, along with Ella, Chris and Dan reluctantly agreeing to their joining in the search. An aborigine tracker leads the way, at a shilling a day.
There are some impressive sights and sounds of The Burning Land, it's "like looking at The Pit of Hell." "We stay here, we die," warns our tracker. That night they camp by trees, Dan rightly perceiving that Ella is "trouble." But Chris must guess, for there she is, making eyes at him!
After some scouting alone, Chris finds David's body. End of quest. But Walter meanwhile has entered the cave and greedily snatched a giant opal. That will anger the aborigines, though for the moment Walter has got out successfully despite the legend. But he soon falls ill, is it superstition? Or as Chris suspects, poisoning?
"Spirit people punish," explains the tracker, in support of the former theory. But Chris is searching for berries, antidote to the suspected poison. While he's gone, Ella exposes her true motives, she poisoned Walter so she can get rich. She only married her husband for similar reasons. She gallops off with her prize, but meets a poetic end as she drops her opal, and trying to recover it in quicksand, is gobbled up herself, "a horrible way to die."
"Spirit people punish," repeats our tracker.