Starring Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Cande Gerrard, Adrienne Bourbeau, Marie Goodhart
Directed by James L. Wolcott
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
The isle of Wongo contains a tribe of unattractive men and beautiful women, while the neighboring isle of Goona is led by a tribe of just the opposite, leading to conflict between the two.
The colorful Florida locations are probably this low-budget film's strongest asset, as the rest of the production falters with long repetitive flatly photographed scenes, and overuse of the same 1950s library music again and again. Hawkshaw does stand out as the king of Wongo's daughter, whose attraction to a visitor from Goona drives the plot, and she's quite beautiful, can act, and gets to wrestle an alligator for her life, but the other cast members are not so memorable. Scenes featuring a jungle priestess are more boring than dynamic, the screeches of a macaw meant for comic relief aren't alway easy to understand, and sexism abounds, which is somewhat but not completely undone by some gender role reversal late in the film. It's still watchable, but seems more like an attempt to make a movie, rather than a fully developed one.
No comments:
Post a Comment