Rio Del Val (Fernando Lamas) was a riverboat skipper working the villages in the Amazon Basin, until lovely and innocent Alice Parker (Rhonda Fleming) arrived in search of her fiance Jerry Russell (Richard Denning), who had been searching for a lost gold trove. So now Rio Del Val leads an expedition in search of the treasure. They are imperiled by vicious Jivaro headhunters who reside in the forbidding Valley Of The Winds. JIVARO is a well-executed jungle adventure, of the type that used to be so popular from the 1930s to the 1960s, and Paramount used to make quite a lot of them. Brian Keith scored as an evil-minded prospector. Filmed on a much bigger budget by producers William Pine and William Thomas, also known as the "Dollar Bills"; they were in charge of Paramount's B-movie unit, and a lot of their fractured flickers slipped into the public domain. According to the previous reviews, apparently JIVARO is not available on home video here in the U.S. and all I can say is, why not? Paramount needs to get on the stick, and have Olive Films put it out. There's a market out there for these jungle jitters. That's all, have a good weekend, and stay safe.
Review of Jivaro
