Okay so Fernando Lamas is no Bogart, and Rhonda Fleming is no Hepburn. The premise is different, too. No war, or at least not of the civilized kind. This deals with the possible dangers that Lamas and Fleming find as they trek down the river on Lamas's boat to take Fleming to her plantation owner finance, Richard Denning. But with Denning involved in a hunt for missing treasure, this opens up temptations for the lusty Lamas and the tempestuous Fleming whose red hair is no match for the red jealousy of native girl Rita Moreno, playing another one of her spitfire parts but barely saying anything, wearing hideous outfits and a hairstyle that makes her look like Flora Robson in "Caesar and Cleopatra".
Gorgeous colors about in this exotic setting makes me curious of how it would be in the initial 3D format. It does indeed look like a painting come to life which is an interesting perspective of the exotic nature of the story. Brian Keith and Lon Chaney Jr. also appear in supporting roles, with Keith obviously lusting over Fleming and Chaney, laughing maniacally in his one scene, serving no purpose other than to show the roughness of life in this deadly Brazilian paradise.
Visually, this is quite stunning, but cardboard characters and a rip-off plot from "King Solomon's Mines" makes this a standard, cliched action picture, no worse and certainly not better than the dozens of others of this nature released in the mid 1950's to bring audiences into the theater. Take away the minor romantic elements and the color, and you're left with a Jungle Jim or Bomba programmer, easily forgettable and not at all taxing on the brain.
Gorgeous colors about in this exotic setting makes me curious of how it would be in the initial 3D format. It does indeed look like a painting come to life which is an interesting perspective of the exotic nature of the story. Brian Keith and Lon Chaney Jr. also appear in supporting roles, with Keith obviously lusting over Fleming and Chaney, laughing maniacally in his one scene, serving no purpose other than to show the roughness of life in this deadly Brazilian paradise.
Visually, this is quite stunning, but cardboard characters and a rip-off plot from "King Solomon's Mines" makes this a standard, cliched action picture, no worse and certainly not better than the dozens of others of this nature released in the mid 1950's to bring audiences into the theater. Take away the minor romantic elements and the color, and you're left with a Jungle Jim or Bomba programmer, easily forgettable and not at all taxing on the brain.