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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Untamed Women (1952)

Starring Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan, Mark Lowell, Morgan Jones
Directed by W. Merle Connell

(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)


Four men aboard a bomber plane crash land near an island, where they find themselves the prisoners of an ancient race of Druid women, and later encounter giant prehistoric creatures. 


Conrad stars as the leader of the ragtag crew, who has three very different men under his command, including a man who enlisted to get away from his mother, a simple farm boy, and a far too verbose Brooklynite always preaching the joys available in his home town.  There's some sexist dialogue among the men, although the women have the upper hand for most of the film, thanks to a chief played by Merrick who's eager to do away with the men.  Once the men get away and encounter the prehistoric animals, it's a disappointment because the footage is obviously cribbed from One Million B.C. with armadillos, lizards, and other creatures standing in.  Nevertheless, there were parts of the film I enjoyed, and it's a pretty hard to find sci-fi film from the era of the 1950s, which makes it merit a look.       

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