GOLD OF THE AMAZON WOMEN
US, 1979, 94 minutes, Colour.
Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasence.
Directed by Mark L.Lester.
Gold of the Amazon Women is comic-book stuff, a brief telemovie of action adventure which is farfetched but done with tongue in cheek by director Mark L. Lester (Class of 99, Fire Starter, Truck Stop Women, Stunts, Bobby Joe and the Outlaw). Bo Svenson is a stolid tough hero, Richard Romanus has some energy as his companion in adventure. Donald Pleasence leers as the villain. Anita Ekberg makes something of a comeback as the statuesque Amazon queen - in the middle of the modern Brazilian jungle.
It is a story of adventurers in Brazil, a greedy villain pursuing the heroes who are trying to find the gold of the Amazons. Anita Ekberg leads her warrior kingdom - and there are battles and confrontations and the group having to face the realities of the modern world. Comic-book stuff.
1. Entertaining comic-book adventure drama?
2. New York locations, the Brazilian jungle, towns and cities, the jungles? Stunts and special effects?
3. The title and expectations? Legendary gold? The Amazons guarding the gold? The adventurers?
4. Tom as hero, geographical and geological expeditions? Nowhere else to go? The request by the professor, the murders in New York, the Amazon gold? His meeting with the Hispanic businessman? Their becoming friendly? The clashes with the villain? The dead Amazons? The trip to South America, going into the jungle, the difficulties, the guides? The natives? Finding the Amazon women, captives, the other captive men? The breeding and continuing of the Amazons? The relationships with the women? The pursuit of the villain, the deaths, the helicopter? The city of gold? The optical illusion? The fight, the defeat of the villain? The return to the town with the gold? The end of the adventure - and the women going back to the jungle? The buddies and their work together, sharing adventures, dangers, injury? The sexual implications of the adventure?
5. The villain, sinister, the help of the Amazon traitors? The deaths in New York, the pursuit of the hero and his assistant? In the jungles, the helicopters, the battles? The city of gold - and the optical illusions, people being reduced? The surrender?
6. The Amazon queen, the women - straight out of comic strips and exploitation stories? The city of gold, the relationship with the men, the captives? The battles - and civilisation? Their return home?
7. The popularity of this kind of genre movie?
