This film must have been an extremely strenuous undertaking both as producer & star for the late Chips Rafferty. There's the usual paternalistic attitude to the locals and problems with witch doctors, but not excessively so to modern sensibilities; and the tone is in the main quietly level-headed. After Rafferty's predictable initial opposition to bringing French woman doctor Françoise Christophe along, she too is eventually allowed to settle into the team and behave like a pro. And Carl Kayser's Eastman Color photography is terrific!

Seen as WALK INTO HELL, as apparently doctored up by Joseph E Levine. 35mm print still blazing with color. The mademoiselle doctor is charming, though the romance is tepid. The real-life District Officer, Fred Kaad, is a screen natural! Excellent picture of colonialist society of Papua-New Guinea at the time. Compare with MOGAMBO? Camera-work is fluent and lively, scenery looks as spectacular as producers intended, and almost as it really is.Several crew had earlier worked with Robinson on Australian Government documentaries -- good way to scout a production! Auric's music is ordinary, a pity, obviously he came in at the end.

With the right marketing this film could be re-released in Australia and France, and possibly elsewhere. It's a solid entry into the "adventure" genre, with slightly wooden but totally endearing performances by the cast.Chips Rafferty is quite charming in a blue-collar no-nonsense sort of a way, and it's extraordinary to see how the Australian film persona has evolved since then.Some of the imagery of Papua and New Guinea is breathtaking, and would be utterly impossible to film now in light of security problems there now.Come on Village Roadshow, do some forward-thinking PR and distribute this gem!!!!

Long before Australia had a real film industry, Chips Rafferty and Lee Robinson made movies in an old picture theatre at Bondi Junction (Sydney). They began modestly making small budget films for the Australian markert but soon realized the importance of International distribution.With no help from the government, they arranged their own co-production deal with a French company. WALK INTO PARADISE (HELL) and THE STOWAWAY with Martine Carol were two of the joint ventures.Rafferty and Robinson made no money from these films because the French took all the cream but both films are to tribute to Rafferty, Robinson and the fledgling Australian Film Industry of the time.WALK INTO PARADISE is an epic adventure on a grand scale and was filmed almost entirely in the wilds of Papua/New Guinea. It still has a lot of entertainment to offer.