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By CYNTHIA WILMOT
It is no accident that increasing numbers of movie producers from London and Hollywood are choosing the British Caribbean island of Jamaica for location shots requiring a tropical background. From a movie man's point of view, Jamaica has everything. A few miles away from the most modern luxury hotels lie lush jungle areas that have yet to be explored by man. Beginning at the capital city, Kingston, and traveling no further than a hundred miles in any direction, the visitor can sample the superb resort areas along the island's north coast, go inland to the hills and sleepy English village of Mandeiille, southwest to the gloomy mangrove swamps where alligators are shot by torchlight.
What's more, Jamaica is never too hot, never too cold, and even in the short rainy seasons the sun shines at least a few hours each day. The people are friendly, the atmosphere is casual and relaxed to the extreme — nobody hurries in Jamaica. The familiar answer to almost any request is "soon come", which has the same meaning as the Mexican "manana."
ADD TO all these natural attractions guest house accomodations for as little at thirty dollars a week I three meals per day included) and rum at ten cents a drink, and it's easy to see why professional and amateur movie makers are finding Jamaica a photographer's paradise. So movieconscious is the Island, as a matter of fact, that clerks in the big hotels keep a supply of British film handy under the counter, and are quick to direct camera fans to "the lagoon where Disnev did the under-water shots", or the
bit of coast on which they made "All the Brothers Were Valiant".
But — to fill you in. Jamaica is the largest of the British Islands in the Caribbean. It can be reached by air from New York and other points in a few hours. Jamaican currency is based on the British sterling system, but American dollars are welcomed.
Physically, the island is shaped like a squat sausage, twenty-two miles wide at the narrowest point. Running through the center lengthwise are several ranges of mountains, dotted with palm-thatched native huts and small villages built around a market place, a Chinese grocery, and a bar.
Along the North Coast from Port Antonio to Montego Bay stretch a line of resorts, known to cynical natives as ""the Gold Coast". At the resort hotels, each with its own beach, rates run as high as fifty or six dollars a day single. American plan. But if you want to spend your money and have fun too, then you can stay at the Kingston "Y" for less than three dollars a day, three squares included. In between, there are smaller hotels and spotlessly clean guest houses, with adequate accomodation in every area.
To the south is the capital city, Kingston, which hugs one of the world's finest harbors. Enclosing the harbor is a narrow strip of land known as the Palisades. At its tip is the