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 Along the Amazon] (1948).

Director John H Auer’s 1948 Republic Pictures black and white romantic adventure film Angel on the Amazon [Drums Along the Amazon] is based on a story by Earl Felton, and stars George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne and Constance Bennett. With a screenplay by Lawrence Kimble, it really is a strange tale indeed.

A panther scares an old Amazon resident called Christine Ridgeway (Vera Ralston) and, wow!, suddenly she looks 25 again, in this preposterous yarn played the only way such things can be – utterly po-faced – by a bunch of actors (Brent, Bennett, Aherne) who on a good day can please.

Brent plays the plane’s pilot Jim Warburton, who leads a gang of hapless adventurers whose aircraft crashes and foolishly comes down in Ralston’s Amazonian jungle. Obviously it isn’t long before Jim Warburton (Brent) falls for the great Vera.

Also in the cast are Fortunio Bonanova, Alfonso Bedoya, Gus Schilling, Richard Crane, Walter Reed, Ross Elliott, Konstantin Shayne, Elizabeth Dunn, Alberto Morin, and Dick Jones.

Angel on the Amazon [Drums Along the Amazon] is directed by John H Auer, runs 86 minutes, is made and released by Republic Pictures, is written by Lawrence Kimble, is shot in black and white by Reggie Lanning, is produced by John H Auer, is scored by Nathan Scott, and designed by John McCarthy Jr.

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