Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136926 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-07
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Customer Reviews

Queen of What Amazons?
Greg Lambert (Robert Lowery) is missing. Where did he go? Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is off to India to find him. The trail soon leads to Africa, where the searchers encounter a male chauvinist and the Queen of the Amazons. However, by the time you meet the Queen of the Amazons you will likely be either puzzled or annoyed that you watched this turkey.

The movie begins auspiciously. I thought that this movie might be in an Indiana Jones vein. We are soon distracted by stock footage of Indians riding elephants and doing various things, interspersed with Jean and her fellow travelers positioned against generic set walls. The intensity is increased when someone hiding in the curtains murders an Indian girl about to reveal important information. The Indian population is soon fighting, ostensibly because of the murder of the Indian girl, but who would know about the murder?

The travelers escape to Africa, encountering a guide who dislikes women. Jean, being a crack shot, impresses the guide, and everyone sets off into the bush. Lions attack, locusts fly prodigiously, and then there are those mysterious Amazons. Once we get to the Amazons, who seem more like hot, scantily clad babes that need rescued, I was sorely disappointed. There were only a few Amazons. The Amazons looked out of place in the jungle and in Africa. The Queen of the Amazons looked more like a 1940s movie floozy.

I think that having movies such as this one available is a good thing. These movies give those seeking a certain genre or the movies of a certain actor the opportunity to see much more of their portfolio than was once possible. However, I think this movie was sixty-one minutes of low-budget film that must have been matinee filler leading up to a main feature, because I think I would have been unhappy to have paid a nickel or a dime to see this when it was released in 1947.

Queen Of Dullsville...
Well, if your anything like me, this title gets your hopes up for an hour of babes running around the jungle in leopard-skin bikinis. Forget it! The first 40 minutes are spent showing us stock footage from India and Africa, peppered with scenes of some dull white folks wandering from place to place. When we finally meet the queen and her "amazons" (of which there are about 4), we get a village of gals who are about as feral as housecats! Yecch! ...

Perhaps The Most Boring Use Of Stock Footage Ever
"Queen of the Amazons" is a great title that inspires thoughts of women in fur bikinis running around terrorizing natives with amazing savagery and sultriness. Unfortunately, that is all in a different movie.

This movie is a rambling assemblage of stock footage of wild animals (especially lions) and boring white people (and a monkey) who somehow incite riots in India after they don't commit a murder...a murder that seemingly has nothing to do with the rest of the plot. (Confused yet?) So they fly to Africa. Of course.

Once in Africa they hire a guide and some natives that can't wait to dance for our pleasure at the drop of a hat (read: "more stock footage") and generally lead them far into the bush after telling tales of a horrible shipwreck that stranded the devilish white women, the Amazons, in the jungle. When we finally meet the Amazons they seem better at serving tea and crumpets than in dominating a continent. They have also taught their loyal lions to speak English, as they issue them extremely complex instructions that they faithfully carry out, thus proving once and for all that cats are smarter than dogs, I guess. (It surely proved nothing else, but does pad the plot immensely.) My favorite scene in the film, by the way, involves one of the ferocious felines. Be sure to watch for the scene when one of our heroes gets attacked by the lion and has to fight it off with his bare hands. This scene is only slightly less realistic than the scene from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in which Michael Palin as "Scott of the Antarctic" fights off the lion with a chair while chain smoking. This and other stunts in the film will make you laugh out loud or roll your eyes (possibly both).

This movie isn't offensive in any way, but it is extremely heavy handed and worse yet, just plain boring. The good news? It's only 61 minutes long.