SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Console best movie i've ever seen.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

wes-connors "Join us on a woman's thrill-packed expedition in search of Greg, the love of her life, who seems to be lost in the African jungle. Unfortunately, her guide, Gary, sees her, and all women, as dead weight on such a trip. Despite this, he agrees to help her while searching for ivory poachers. In the course of their journey they must face imminent danger from man-eating lions and a plague of locusts. Eventually, they encounter a lost tribe of Amazon warriors. Is Greg held captive by their desirable 'White Goddess' (titular Queen) or is he there of his own free will?" asks the DVD sleeve synopsis. You won't care.Some of the zealously inserted stock footage isn't bad, but it's edited in too sloppily to have any good effect. Leading players Robert Lowery (as Gary Lambert) and Patricia Morison (as Jean Preston) are about as good as you can get, considering the material; they appear to see the humor in the material, without breaking into fits of laughter. A couple of the supporting players appear to be taking their roles far too seriously, which helps make the movie unintentionally funny. Former silent child star Wesley Barry is credited as "Assistant Director," which became a moderately successful second career.** Queen of the Amazons (1/15/47) Edward Finney ~ Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg, John Miljan

Shantikami I only give this movie a 2 because I know there are far worse movies out there. But this one's pretty much a stinker.Supposedly a science fiction movie, it is instead a tale of a group of white people looking for the heroine Jane's fiancé. They travel from 'exotic' India, in which the natives are restless and must 'pacify' themselves with parades and games such as elephant tug-of-war, to 'wild' Africa, in which the natives dance for every important occasion, lions regularly stalk their safari, and locusts swarm overhead.But the most dangerous thing around isn't the wildlife. It's the hidden city of Amazons, white goddesses, who secretly rule the country with voodoo. A city whose ruler has taken Jane's fiancé. But is he hostage, or her willing sweetheart? Okay, you might say, white goddesses with voodoo...that could be science fiction, right? If they have tech or magic powers? Eh-eh. Nope. The Amazons are just women who rule over the natives by some mysterious political process. Rather vain women, with a queen who is pouty-feisty and requires praise on her looks, who claims to be rough and ready but who stands screaming when the real bad guy (the poetry spouting chef/ivory smuggler) menaces her and Jane.So all in all, it's a pretty bad movie. You don't get much character development, the racial stereotypes are painful, and it ends with a clunk. Oh, and did I mention it's not science fiction at all????

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.