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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Richard Chatten The title 'Queen of the Amazons' with Patricia Morison led me to hope that Morison (who recently celebrated her 102nd birthday) would be in the title role, but alas no. She's playing Jean Preston, looking for her missing fiancé somewhere in the Dark Continent, where she trades in her fetching forties suits for a fetching pair of jodhpurs and riding boots and her party eventually encounters the amazons promised by the title.In support are veterans J.Edward Bromberg (first seen reciting 'Three Fishers' by Charles Kingsley to his pet monkey) and John Miljan, who serves as the film's narrator. About half the film consists of stock footage (some of which I recognised from Martin & Osa Johnson's 'Simba: King of the Beasts' [1928]), and the film actually does a pretty good job of integrating the actors into the actuality scenes.Ironically it's when we finally meet the tribe of "white she-devils" that the film loses its grip; and despite all their build-up both Jean (having earlier shown herself to be a crack shot with a six-shooter) and Queen Zita (equally deadly with a bow & arrow) both prove disappointingly useless when they actually find themselves confronted with a crisis. The day is instead saved by Zita's blonde handmaiden Sugi (Cay Forester), whose quick thinking in grabbing a blowpipe and killing the villain should have resulted in Zita abdicating in her favour, and instead doing Sugi's hair from now on.

MartinHafer The movie begins in India and quickly switches to Africa. A lady is looking for her fiancé who disappeared when going on safari. This is the thin plot that was created to justify the use of a bazillion feet of stock footage of African wildlife--some of which was grainy and in slow motion! In many ways, it felt and looked a lot like a second-rate Tarzan picture--that is until a bunch of White women appeared in the heart of Africa! These "Amazon women" were naturally luscious babes--complete with 1940s style perms!! I found this really easy to believe...and if you do as well, I have some oceanfront land to sell you in Iowa.At one point in the film before they luckily stumble upon the Amazons, a member of the search party says to another something like "I think I know who the guilty party is....I'll tell you in the morning". To me and those knowledgeable in B-movies, this means "I will be killed in the next scene...it's been nice knowing you"!! And, surprise, surprise, the guy is worm food in the very next scene! Well, just after this, the Amazon queen sends word to the party that she'd like to meet them--at which point she tells them that she is in love with the missing fiancé--and he wants to stay there with her. This is fortuitous, as his fiancée who led the expedition had already shown signs of falling for their guide. Once again, what amazing luck. And, when a traitor in their midst shows himself to be the murderer and is about to have the White men killed, luck of luck, the men manage to fight back and escape! Wow, what wonderful luck....once again!! Overall, it's a typical low-budget African adventure movie--about what you'd expect. A semi-engaging plot, occasionally competent acting, silly dialog, women standing by helplessly as the men fight (this was even true of the "Amazons" much of the time--what wimpy Amazons!) and lots of cheap stock footage.By the way, in a sad note, this bevy of White ladies have a very strong 1940s mentality about race, as the leader explains that they have talked about inviting in White men to join them--presumably because the Amazons are against interracial relations. However, it sure seems that when you live in the middle of nowhere in Africa, you can't be that choosy.

mstomaso One of Edward Finney's most well-known films, Queen of the Amazons is the story of a young woman (Patricia Morison), her guide, father-in-law, an absent minded professor, a cook and a man scorned who all go on safari to hunt down her missing fiancé. The film includes a number of subplots ranging from the romance to murder mystery, and somehow, it is all linked up to illegal ivory smuggling. The safari, inexplicably, launches from colonial India, and the search takes up more than half the story.Most of the story is driven by transitional scenes between stock footage of African wildlife, jungle scenery and well-acted action scenes including animal attacks. The script, which takes on the responsibility for drawing everything together and driving it along, is not really up to the task. Dialog is used to establish virtually everything the stock footage can not. Besides the bland camera-work, the often laughable stock footage, and the over-taxed script, the directing and editing are good. There are a few continuity errors, but not as many as some reviewers have claimed. After all, this is Queen of the Amazons (who were written about by ancient Greeks 1500 years before Europeans arrived in South America) not "Queen of the Amazon" (a river named after the Greek stories). One, however, is worth watching out for. Pat Morison is examining some stock footage of African Savannah animals running away through binoculars. Just as she says "why are they running away so fast?" we see a herd of gazelles in the binoculars - running in very slow motion.The cast performs very well given the limitations of the script and story. The only acting disasters belong to the nevertheless likable Amira Moustafa (who had a remarkably short career). Many of the other actors were veteran character actors, or on their ways to becoming so.What the film fails to do, despite a fairly strong effort, is to generate any sense of drama or urgency. Nevertheless, it is not a complete mess, and the stock footage is actually quite nice!

mjjh I saw this film on the science fiction classics DVD set, but knew that there would likely not be much science fictional in it -- after noting that it also contains "prehysterical" women or the Sons of Hercules films. There was a "bugologist" and some lessons in anthropology, which were quite fictional, even some unexpected dancing and poetry. It was fun, if like me you happen to like these kind of movies with corny, old-fashion, happy endings -- especially after a hard day's work thinking. The monkey and the raven did seem to be the most interesting actors, especially the monkey.There is even a serious side. It certainly reminds one of how things have changed since then in that then it was against the law to sell ivory without giving the colonial power its cut, while now it's supposedly illegal to do so to anyone at all.