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Angel on the Amazon [Drums Along the Amazon] * (1948, George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 11,381

‘A Woman Cursed With Eternal Youth! The sullen killer of the jungles… and the woman who knew no fear! The story of their meeting and the strange events that followed!’: Angel on the Amazon [Drums […]

Jul, 11

Green Mansions ** (1959, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Lee J Cobb, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 11,316

Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins romp in the forbidden forests beyond the Amazon. Director Mel Ferrer’s disastrous 1959 Metrocolor and CinemaScope romantic adventure drama Green Mansions stars the young and handsome Anthony Perkins and Audrey […]

Jun, 17

Eve ** (1968, Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, Celeste Yarnall) – Classic Movie Review 7656

Director Jeremy Summers’s campy 1968 adventure thriller Eve stars the 24-year-old Celeste Yarnall as the central character Eve, along with Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, and Christopher Lee. Eve is advertised as ‘The Original Flower Child’, which is how Celeste Yarnall (1944 […]

Oct, 10

Tarzan and the Amazons *** (1945, Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Maria Ouspenskaya, Barton MacLane, Henry Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 5905

‘ STRANGE ADVENTURE…in the secret wonder city of pagan forest maidens.’ Johnny Weissmuller stars again in RKO’s 1945 adventure as Tarzan, who this time looks after a tribe of women in a hidden Amazon valley threatened […]

Aug, 13

Wonder Woman **½ (2017, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis) – Movie Review

Wonder Woman has two aces in its hand – Gal Gadot as made-from-clay amazon goddess Diana and Chris Pine as World War One US spy Steve Trevor – but two aces don’t necessarily make a winning hand. […]

Jun, 01

Embrace of the Serpent [El abrazo de la serpiente] **** (2015, Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis) – Movie Review

This enthralling, spectacular looking historical adventure from Colombian director and writer Ciro Guerra (born 1981) is a fascinating contradiction. It is at once both chilly and emotional. It is poetical and political. It is both easily accessible […]

Jun, 03

The Rundown [Welcome to the Jungle] *** (2003, The Rock, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 1376

Director Peter Berg’s 2003 action adventure thriller The Rundown, also known as Welcome to the Jungle, stars The Rock (also known as Dwayne Johnson), who comes on like Arnie on speed as Beck, an aspiring chef […]

Jun, 29

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