This is a very lame jungle adventure movie with no real jungle feeling to it and the plot is deplorable (a bunch of whites rob jungle natives of their diamonds and shoot dead dozens of natives like flies on the way as a white jungle girl who has been living among them collaborates in all this atrocity because she fallen for one of the guys), but Edwige Fenech completists might nevertheless like to check it out as it is one of her earlier starring roles (before becoming the queen of Italian crime thrillers). For the record, she is scantily-clad (but never nude, at least in the tv version I watched) and, yes, very beautiful.
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Typical jungle adventure
unbrokenmetal24 December 2010
The adventurer Clint (Roger Browne) travels across Borneo with a bunch of rogues and geologists on the search for a diamond mine. In the middle of the jungle, they meet a beautiful woman called Samoa (Edwige Fenech). Hardly a surprise that Clint falls in love with Samoa, but trouble with the natives begins when the diamonds are found because diamonds are holy stones to them.
This is a typical jungle adventure going by the unwritten book of rules. I'm sure you have seen several other movies already where a jungle queen rules over a secret kingdom and greedy men are disturbing the peace when they are looking for gold, ivory or diamonds. Same old song here, nothing particularly bad about it, but nothing good that needs to be mentioned either. Except of course Edwige Fenech who looks gorgeous in whatever she is almost wearing.
This is a typical jungle adventure going by the unwritten book of rules. I'm sure you have seen several other movies already where a jungle queen rules over a secret kingdom and greedy men are disturbing the peace when they are looking for gold, ivory or diamonds. Same old song here, nothing particularly bad about it, but nothing good that needs to be mentioned either. Except of course Edwige Fenech who looks gorgeous in whatever she is almost wearing.
At least Edwige Fenech is in it
BandSAboutMovies28 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This movie looked like absolute junk, a tale of white colonialism that would be dated even a few years after it was made.
But then I realized that the jungle girl was played by Edwige Fenech and here we go.
Director Guido Malatesta made Colossus and the Headhunters and Maciste il vendicatore dei Maya, so I'm going to stop being mean and just say that he made simple films that were probably crown pleasers in their time.
Roger Browne, who would one day be the Senator in Emanuelle in America, is looking for a diamond mine and finds Samoa (Fenech), he has to decide between being a criminal and leaving with her tribe's holy stones or settling down in the jungle with the queen of all giallo. Dude, how is this even a choice?
Come for the comically long bar fight, stay for Ms. Fenech and enjoy the appearance by Femi Benussi, who was in The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance; So Sweet, So Dead and The Killer Must Kill Again.
But then I realized that the jungle girl was played by Edwige Fenech and here we go.
Director Guido Malatesta made Colossus and the Headhunters and Maciste il vendicatore dei Maya, so I'm going to stop being mean and just say that he made simple films that were probably crown pleasers in their time.
Roger Browne, who would one day be the Senator in Emanuelle in America, is looking for a diamond mine and finds Samoa (Fenech), he has to decide between being a criminal and leaving with her tribe's holy stones or settling down in the jungle with the queen of all giallo. Dude, how is this even a choice?
Come for the comically long bar fight, stay for Ms. Fenech and enjoy the appearance by Femi Benussi, who was in The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance; So Sweet, So Dead and The Killer Must Kill Again.
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