Other than to watch pretty Angelica Morales - and it would seem in her only film - as the poor kidnapped, bound
dragged heroine Morena, and continuity goofs galore spots, complete and
utter dross!
Surely of the long gone, past kids' Saturday morning at the cinema complete
throwaway trash fare, as in to see the regularly placed exotic animals -
elongated man and attack tiger tussle especially - except that at the
beginning, for the writhing virgin sacrifice (Linda Cordorva) bound arms up
in front of night cavorting, menacingly masked local tribesmen (yup, ALL
men, well of course), eventually her top is pulled off* revealing, shock
horror, in most pre silicon full pert way .. well, what Saturday morning
kids' films most certainly wouldn't be allowed to be shown to THEM!
So, with the following long (long!) tedious drag through the jungle of the
next kidnapped sacrificial virgin (our helpless heroine, Morena: Angelica
Morales) you have to wonder which audience this might've been aimed at (er,
perhaps those kids' Dads?): but plot spoiler coming here - you won't get
anymore after that. (Unless ya like bare chested men ...!*)
Instead, you will get fun constant continuity carelessness spots, as poor
Angelica would seem to be interminably, literally dragged through the
jungle: and surely realistically painfully barefoot at that, after one of
her sandals is left behind to be a clue for rescuer hero (chunky David
DaLie) to find - plus, later, yet another to assure he's on the right
track, he finds her 'earing' that luckily and oh so plausibly spotted to be
plucked outta the whole jungle floor of thick vegetation ...
Indeed, re being barefoot for most of her captured drag, one closer up shot
is of her feet bloodied: and at another shot, near a river, she slips:
which looked a genuine fall to me and surely must have darn hurt! To the
extent that for both instances, surely makes one wonder if that was also
'literally' real of her acting travails and commitment.
As not only that, but in that interminable drag to the sacrificial poles,
many times she's manhandled slung about the evil native baddy kidnapper
(Antonio Gutierrez), onto rocks and tree trunks: so much so that I would
think it would be those Dads in the audience rather than kids who felt it
would be worth sitting through this in effect silent film, as with mostly
voiceover diegesis and soundtracked music rather than any location sound:
as at that aforementioned slip on the watery rocks, we do hear a rather
pathetic full throated whoop call from dragger kidnapper (evil native
baddy), but the rushing stream waters at Morena's feet is completely absent.
Rather, you can almost hear the directions being shouted out by director
Fernandez Wegner - 'look here, go there, stop there', and as like at that
Morena tumble, no doubt, 'keep going Angelica, no matter, you're doing
well, looking great, just keep in character, we'll attend to your injuries
after we got the shot, don't fuss, now'!
For, on and on, she is dragged as our hero white (ostensibly animal) hunter
in pursuit, nonchalantly picking off the pesky natives, even if appear to
be mere slips of youths themselves, with them frighteningly, wildly
gesticulating arms of theirs they quite deserve to be shot stone dead.
They - or the evil native baddy kidnapper - is also so inept at jungle lore
that when he sets his traps, like trip vine spear, he sets it so thick and
thigh high that intrepid white man hunter hero easily spots it before
blundering into it.
Of another of those wily natives is an 'OILED' tree trunk our hero is
shimmying across: we know coz voiceover he assures us: "Oil: They've
covered the log! I hadn't realised just how cunning these natives can be!"
Yup: think: all those logs to be 'oiled' - or it was, heck, just bad luck
he chose that one (out of thousands!)
Then, having gone to all that trouble (half of the film's run!) to rescue
her, and being that she just has to be a virgin (of course: hey, it's in
the title, innit? And anyway, why drag her so far to sacrifice
otherwise?!), then - ah warning (dads!): plot ruiner coming - as soon as he
cuts her free - the film ends!
No happy ever after denouement showing nor even indicate her gratitude for
a happy ever after embrace - even surely obligatory relieved at rescue
kiss, into the sunset! (dads?!) You'll just have to imagine, guess THAT
ending - which is as I did, by which then, boy o boy, yup, does that then
make this film with sultry Morena, utterly fabulous!
(But so, warning: if ya don't have that imagination, besides Angelica and
her tormented feet, complete and utter boring bilge!)
* Although, you could think of a sort equal opportunities was at thought
here, because in an early purely incongruous long locals' dance routine,
the boogieing dance guy (Joe Lanza) gets HIS shirt pulled off by his female
(Lydia Goya) dance partner, so its then him all bare chested gyrating away.
Well see, there ya go: obvious equal sexes bare topped display, no smut nor
objectification on display here - move along the plot, please!
* They should all be in the 'Goofs' section, but note, arrowed explorer
(could be the actual director, Wegner?) who changes his dead position from
camera shot to shot: the masked drummer native who at the fight to death
finish is shown no longer drumming so despite the soundtrack frantically
continuing drumming: Morena herself 'anointed' with sacrificial burnt wood
cross on her forehead, first pretty large down to top of her nose, then
disappears, then reappears, but much smaller .. then: ah, well, really,
make it fun to watch it yourself as an all drink occasion when yet another
crops up.
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