Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Richard Chatten The title 'Queen of the Amazons' with Patricia Morison led me to hope that Morison (who recently celebrated her 102nd birthday) would be in the title role, but alas no. She's playing Jean Preston, looking for her missing fiancé somewhere in the Dark Continent, where she trades in her fetching forties suits for a fetching pair of jodhpurs and riding boots and her party eventually encounters the amazons promised by the title.In support are veterans J.Edward Bromberg (first seen reciting 'Three Fishers' by Charles Kingsley to his pet monkey) and John Miljan, who serves as the film's narrator. About half the film consists of stock footage (some of which I recognised from Martin & Osa Johnson's 'Simba: King of the Beasts' [1928]), and the film actually does a pretty good job of integrating the actors into the actuality scenes.Ironically it's when we finally meet the tribe of "white she-devils" that the film loses its grip; and despite all their build-up both Jean (having earlier shown herself to be a crack shot with a six-shooter) and Queen Zita (equally deadly with a bow & arrow) both prove disappointingly useless when they actually find themselves confronted with a crisis. The day is instead saved by Zita's blonde handmaiden Sugi (Cay Forester), whose quick thinking in grabbing a blowpipe and killing the villain should have resulted in Zita abdicating in her favour, and instead doing Sugi's hair from now on.

bkoganbing The career of Patricia Morison is a strange one. She was a great singer with a fine soprano voice yet was never used in Hollywood in musicals. I recall her being a fine villain in a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie, maybe that was the best of the B films she did. Yet on Broadway she reached stardom in playing the female lead in Kiss Me Kate.But I don't think she ever sunk so low as in this independent B film Queen Of The Amazons. She's not in the title role, she's just looking for her fiancé who disappeared on safari years ago.Great white hunter Robert Lowery guides Morison into the African jungle looking for Bruce Edwards. They've got a dual purpose in mind, also to try and find who's been killing the great elephants of Africa for their ivory. That's what Edwards was doing when he disappeared. When they do find him, he's having a great old time with a tribe of white female Amazons, their chief has made him the object of her affections. And Queen Amira Moustafa isn't about to let Morison reclaim him. Not that it's an issue because she's already eying Robert Lowery the same way. It's great to see those jungle Amazons keeping up with the latest Forties fashion.A whole lot of stock jungle footage gets used here to pad things out. Road To Zanzibar had more going for it than this item.

unbrokenmetal If "Queen of the Amazons" is listed among the 10 worst films of the 1940s at IMDb, I suppose it means a lot of films have been lost since then or are watched by nobody anymore. "Queen of the Amazons" is nothing particularly bad, just an average adventure flick that required plenty of archive footage of giraffes, elephants, a sinking ship etc. to fill the 60 minutes running time. "Queen of the Amazons" tells the story of a lady who looks in India for her lost fiancé. She is told "wrong continent!", because he actually went on a safari to Africa. Hey, we all make mistakes! Or maybe it was just because they also had some footage from an unfinished movie about India in the archive? Nevermind, the heroes soon continue the search in Africa, where lions attack oftentimes, but the Amazons the title promises don't matter so much. The script writer tried his best to provide some twists and turns for the story, so in the end, it wasn't as bad as the 2 out of 10 average rating made me expect.

Hitchcoc I got this in a science fiction collection. I kept waiting for some technological or science oriented event to take place. This is a bad jungle movie. That's it. It's about a group of people who go to Africa to find some guy who disappeared during a safari into the bush. His fiancée is with the group. She gets to go along because of the way she handles a gun. We are led to believe that the women in this movie are formidable and capable. One can out shoot the male lead. However, when faced with danger, they shrink back and scream. The Amazon Queen is the same way. She has built a society in the jungle, showing no mercy at times, but when it comes time to confront the villain, all she can do is plaster herself against a wall and howl. The men are just as bad. Most of the film is stock footage from African newsreels. It allows you to get a sandwich between plot elements. At times it appears that the safari has about 400 native supply carriers. At other times they have about five. People get eaten by lions and killed with spears. A romance develops between the great white hunter and the other guy's fiancée. The evil Amazon Queen doesn't do much of anything except make idle threats. And when push comes to shove, she doesn't seem to have any power at all. What a worthless movie!