A very silly adventure based upon a British comic strip about a British adventuress (Kristen Hughes) who is busy searching for a lost city in Africa filled with diamonds, determined to get there before the Nazis do. She's aided by American adventurer Sam Jones who ends up in a precarious position, tied up in a locked barn as spears above him are triggered to fall when a candle burns the string they're attached to. The Nazis are represented by oversexed countess Maud Adams (definitely a likeness to the Russian Natasha Fatale), surrounded by a bunch of imbesillic Germans. This definitely requires a drinking game each time Hughes ends up in her scanties. A spur of the moment tango had me in hysterics.
There were many "Indiana Jones" ripoffs in the 1980's, and this is certainly better than the "King Solomon's Mines" and its outlandish sequel, a popcorn movie where the characters all parallel cartoon characters. A British officer is definitely exactly like Commander McBragg of "Tennessee Tuxedo" fame, and the other Nazis are amalgamation of various mustache twirling villains. You know all is going to work out in the end even if many of the situations seem impossible to survive. Probably one of the most delightful discoveries I've found in researching movies as I had never heard of it.
There were many "Indiana Jones" ripoffs in the 1980's, and this is certainly better than the "King Solomon's Mines" and its outlandish sequel, a popcorn movie where the characters all parallel cartoon characters. A British officer is definitely exactly like Commander McBragg of "Tennessee Tuxedo" fame, and the other Nazis are amalgamation of various mustache twirling villains. You know all is going to work out in the end even if many of the situations seem impossible to survive. Probably one of the most delightful discoveries I've found in researching movies as I had never heard of it.