/ kalebeul / 2004 / 10 / 17 / nothing new in politics /
Two brothers [illegible] one kingdom. One dreamed of peace for his country, the other fought valiantly for his ideals:

This photo (scroll to no 25) is from the University of Hawaii’s brilliant Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands collection. Sfida al re di Castiglia (”The Tyrant of Castile”), a 1963 Hispano-Italian, helmet-clattering, bodice-busting epic featuring Mark Damon and Rada Rassimov, had taken roughly seven years to get from Europe to a cinema on Yap, Micronesia.
Do you think the lead looks more like John Kerry or the Tin Man?
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