Mark
L. (Commando) Lester directed this Made for TV jungle adventure the same year
as Roller Boogie. Bo Svenson stars as an
explorer looking for gold in the Amazon jungle.
Some Amazon women get wind that he’s snooping around and try to
bow-and-arrow him to death. The killer Amazons
are in cahoots with crazy old Donald Pleasence who wants Bo to lead him to the
gold, so he can steal it for himself.
Once Bo arrives in the Amazon village, he’s immediately kidnapped and
marked for breeding stock by the sultry Queen of the Amazons (Anita Ekberg). Pleasence attacks the village looking for the
gold and Bo agrees to team up with the Amazon Women to stop him.
Since
this is a TV movie, there is an awful lot of padding. The scenes of Bo and Richard Romanus (who’s
playing a Latino) making their way through the jungle are slow going for the
most part. You also have to wait until
the film’s about halfway over until you get to see Ekberg. The TV budget doesn’t help either as the
climax is chaotic, rushed, and poorly choreographed. The ‘70s “message” moments are often
hilarious though. (“Times are changing.
Men are working with women now.”)
I
did like the scene where Bo has to fight a tribe member (perennial ‘70s
stuntman/That Guy Bob Minor) for the affections of a scantily clad native girl. There’s also a decent stick fight between two
Amazons on a raft surrounded by alligators.
Because of the television censors, it never gets violent or steamy
enough to be worth a damn. So much for
the breeding stock subplot.
AKA: Amazon Women.
AKA: Quest for the Seven
Cities. AKA: Female 300.
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