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2.0 out of 5 stars
Queen of What Amazons?, December 30, 2005
This review is from: Queen of the Amazons (DVD)
Greg Lambert (Robert Lowery) is missing. Where did he go? Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is off to India to find him. The trail soon leads to Africa, where the searchers encounter a male chauvinist and the Queen of the Amazons. However, by the time you meet the Queen of the Amazons you will likely be either puzzled or annoyed that you watched this turkey.
The movie begins auspiciously. I thought that this movie might be in an Indiana Jones vein. We are soon distracted by stock footage of Indians riding elephants and doing various things, interspersed with Jean and her fellow travelers positioned against generic set walls. The intensity is increased when someone hiding in the curtains murders an Indian girl about to reveal important information. The Indian population is soon fighting, ostensibly because of the murder of the Indian girl, but who would know about the murder?
The travelers escape to Africa, encountering a guide who dislikes women. Jean, being a crack shot, impresses the guide, and everyone sets off into the bush. Lions attack, locusts fly prodigiously, and then there are those mysterious Amazons. Once we get to the Amazons, who seem more like hot, scantily clad babes that need rescued, I was sorely disappointed. There were only a few Amazons. The Amazons looked out of place in the jungle and in Africa. The Queen of the Amazons looked more like a 1940s movie floozy.
I think that having movies such as this one available is a good thing. These movies give those seeking a certain genre or the movies of a certain actor the opportunity to see much more of their portfolio than was once possible. However, I think this movie was sixty-one minutes of low-budget film that must have been matinee filler leading up to a main feature, because I think I would have been unhappy to have paid a nickel or a dime to see this when it was released in 1947.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
unusual and fun, from an earlier time, November 19, 2010
This review is from: Queen of the Amazons (DVD)
OK, this is not a film you will want to re-view over and over, but it is definitely worth a watch, that is, if you enjoy campy old films that don't make much sense. It is good for a laugh, but the story really isn't all that bad.
A young woman is seeking to find the man she is supposed to marry, starting in India and winding up somewhere in the wilds of Africa. She is tough and smart, never wavering from the task she has set herself. They find a brave safari guide, who agrees to follow some rumors on their behalf. THere is also a comical cook, with a monkey companion, and a rival for the affections of the girl. As they get deeper into the jungle, mores slowly slip away, leading to murder, the discovery of true feelings, and even a group of EUropean women who have mastered a territory of their own. Things turn out not to be what they seemed.
As the true character and motives of the protagonists are revealed, the outcome is both fun and unexpected. Of course, as with adventure films just after WWII, the effects are clunky, the attitudes still colonial, and the exotic "natives" are stereotypical in some pretty ugly ways.
Recommended for the sake of fun.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An H. Rider Haggard knock-off, August 18, 2004
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Several small stories or scenarios stung together with old 1947 African native footage tossed in as filler. However on the safari there is a real mystery. And as always it is the last person you would suspect if it was a person.
Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) has traced her betrothed (since childhood) to Africa. She is accompanied by her potential father-in-law, his bug loving friend, and a person that considers himself a substitute should they fine the betrothed has met his demise.
Now they need a guide. You guessed it the guide (Robert Lowery) thinks women have no place there. She must convince him with her skills. Mean time it looks like the betrothed was on a mission to find ivory poachers when he disappeared. And the new guide must pick up the trail. Naturally they will need a cook and a bunch or natives. Then there are the stories of a white queen (Amira Moustafa) who captures betroths and bumps off intruders.
So will they be able to pass by locust plagues, man-eating lions, a mysterious curse, and those lonely, long sultry African nights alone in the bush?
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