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Movie Bad Girls (Sins of Jezebel / Queen of the Amazons)

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glad to be able to see this extremely rare movie. colour good but needed cecil b de milles production values as in samson and delilah.

VCI Entertainment and Kit Parker Films presents "MOVIE BAD GIRLS DOUBLE FEATURE" (Sins of Jezebel (1954) & Queen of the Amazons (1947) --- (Dolby digitally remastered)...featuring top performances from the '40s and '50s with outstanding drama and screenplays, along with a wonderful cast and supporting actors to bring it all together ... another winner from the vaults of almost forgotten Hollywood gems.

First up we have Lippert Pictures feature "SINS OF JEZEBEL" (1954) (74 min/Color) --- Under Reginald Le Borg (Director), Sigmund Neufeld (Producer), Richard Landau (Screenwriter), Gilbert Warrenton (Cinematographer), Bert Shefter (Composer (Music Score), Carl Pierson (Editor), F. Paul Sylos (Art Director), Paul F. Sylos (Art Director) ----- the cast includes Paulette Goddard (Jezebel), George Nader (Jehuz), John Hoyt (Elijah), Eduard Franz (King Ahab), John Shelton (Loram), Margia Dean (Deborah), Joe Besser (Yonkel, Chariot man), Ludwig Donath (Naboth), Carmen D'Antonio (Dancer) . . . . . our film and story has a scheming wicked princess of Phoenicia named Jezebel whose pagan ways brings destruction to all she comes in contact with ... Paulette Goddard is believeable as Jezebel, with George Nader who is under her magical spell ... will she introduce her pagan idols in place of the God of Israel, what danger lies before the King of Israel Eduard Franz as Ahab ... Sins of Jezebel takes place in 9th Century, B.C., in the city of Jezreel, the prophet Elijah warns Ahab, the King of Israel, against marrying Jezebel the beautiful but evil Phoenician ... on a very small budget this film comes across and delivers the goods and more

BIOS:
1. Paulette Goddard (aka:Marion Goddard Levy)
Date of birth: 3 June 1910 - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York
Date of death: 23 April 1990 - Ronco, Switzerland
2. George Nader
Date of birth: 19 October 1921 - Pasadena, California
Date of death: 4 February 2002 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
3. Reginald Le Borg (Director)
Date of birth: 11 December 1902 - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Date of death: 25 March 1989 - Los Angeles, California
4. Robert L. Lippert (Producer)
Date of birth: 31 March 1909 - Alameda, California, USA
Date of death: 16 November 1976 - Unknown City & State

BONUS FEATURES:
1. Movie Trivia
2. Photo Gallery
3. Three Nuts In Search of A Bolt (trailer)
4. Promises Promises (trailer)

Second on the double bill is a Robert L. Lippert Picture release "QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS" (1947) (61 min/B/W) --- Under Edward F. Finney -(Director / Producer), Roger Merton (Screenwriter), Robert Pittack (Cinematographer), Lee Zahler (Musical Direction/Supervision), John Link (Editor), James Reimer (Art Director) ----- the cast includes Robert Lowery (Gary Lambert), Patricia Morison (Jean Preston), J. Edward Bromberg (Gabby), John Miljan (Narrator/Colonel Jones), Amira Moustafa (Zita, the Amazon Queen), Keith Richards (Wayne Monroe), Bruce Edwards (Greg Jones), Wilson Benge (Professor), Jack George (Commissioner), Cay Forrester (Sugi), Vida Aldana (Tondra), Hassan Khayyam (Moya) . . . . . our story line as woman searches the Amazon jungle for her missing fiancé ... The problem is not that she finds her husband alive and well, but that he has fallen in love with the Amazon Queen ... is the jungle controlled by a tribe of she-devils ... are outsiders safe, or will they be enslaved and tortured by a gang of smugglers ... what's with all the lions roaming the Lippert Picture set, does one of them have a collar ... don't leave the theater you're about to find out in the last reel . . . . . all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and film noir features like this one.

BIOS:
1. Robert Lowery
Date of birth: 17 October 1913 - Kansas City, Missouri
Date of death: 26 December 1971 - Hollywood, California,
2. Patricia Morrison
Date of birth: 19 March 1915 - New York, New York
Date of death: Still Living
3. Edward F Finney (Director)
Date of birth: 18 April 1903 - New York, New York
Date of death: 10 January 1983 - Los Angeles, California

BONUS FEATURES:
1. Movie Trivia
2. Photo Gallery
3. Bad Blonde (trailer)
4. Man Bait (trailer)
5. Unwed Mother (trailer)

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing the "MOVIE BAD GIRLS DOUBLE FEATURE" (Sins of Jezebel (1954) & Queen of the Amazons (1947), digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '40s and '50s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again for epics and jungle adventures that only VCI Entertainment (King of the Serials) can deliver.

Total Time: 128 mins on DVD ~ VCI Home Video KPF-559 ~ (9/26/2006)

I nave the two movies on dvd and found them to be credible entertainment. I am a stan neufeld andsigmund neufeld movie fan. I have seen many of their best b movies. The lippert movie productions was a small movie company specializing in b movies. The sins of Jezebel for a b movie was done well and stayed close to the biblical narrative I think that this was either the only movie done on the biblical jezebel or the best of the few.Paulett goddard sold the movie well. Queen of the amazons was b entertainment. well acted out by robert lowery,nigel bebruillier and the other team of actors it was an african adventure yarn and nothing more. If you enjoy vintage films you will get your money's worth. Sigmund neufeld with sam neufeld seemed to specialize in the billy the kid westerns, lone rider westerns, Lash larue and a few b crime movies but stepped up in the curse of Jezebel and delivers entertainment.

Whoever wrote the five star review for this pair of turkeys has to be working for or a shill for VCI. You see the same glowing praise from him for virtually everything they release here. I'm both a big fan of VCI and B movies but this combo is really from the bottom of the barrel. Don't let the alluring color poster on the cover fool you, "SIns of Jezebel" is low budget stuff from Lippert and not very good low budget stuff at that! "Ten Commandments" it ain't! It ain't even "Princess of the Nile" (with Debra Paget)! It's a real yawner from start to finish but it is in not so glorious Ansco Color and anamorphic wide screen if that makes any difference.

The second feature is "Queen of the Amazons" and even by B movie standards it's not very good either although at least I didn't have to fight falling asleep as I did with "Jezebel". An unbelievable amount of jungle stock footage combined with the great white hunter (Robert Lowry) leading a safari into danger story you've seen from Monogram and PRC a hundred times. The only difference here is that it's from Lippert. Best thing about it is that it only runs about 54 minutes...but it's still about 50 minutes too long. VCI says 8 minutes was cut from the initial running time, thank you for small favors. Cuthbert Twiddle (me) says "Skip it Bwana!"