Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

rodrig58 I will write a little more about this, because it's a bit special, at least for me, being myself born beyond the iron curtain, just like the main female character of this film. I saw Charlton Heston in many movies that I liked very much: "Soylent Green", "Planet of the Apes", "El Cid", "Ben-Hur", "The Big Country", "Touch of Evil", "The Wreck of the Mary Deare", "Major Dundee", "Agony and the Ecstasy", "Khartoum", "The Omega Man", "Antony and Cleopatra", "The Three Musketeers", "Airport 1975", "The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge", "Earthquake", "The Awakening", "Mother Lode", "Tombstone", "True Lies". All big, great films, in which he usually has the lead role. All films which delighted my childhood and adolescence beyond the iron curtain, in the same country as the character Elena Antonescu from this film. A character played by the beautiful French Nicole Maurey, whom I have seen also in "Sale temps pour les mouches", "Killer Spy", "The Scapegoat" and "Diary of a Country Priest". She is very convincing here, playing a character similar to me in real life, being also born in the same country, Romania. I've seen Thomas Mitchell in many famous and very good movies, he's a very good actor, "Gone with the Wind", "Tales of Manhattan", "It's a Wonderful Life", "High Noon", "Pocketful of Miracles". Yma Sumac, probably the greatest voice of all time, in her first role as an actress, also singing and being very funny. Leon Askin, who I saw in "Road to Bali", "The Terror of Doctor Mabuse" and "Airplane II: The Sequel", very good in the role of the Romanian officer of Securitate Anton Marcu. The story is very simple and very well accomplished by Jerry Hopper.

GreatTreeWiseMan Like probably most of the people who become interested in this film now I decided to watch it in desire of becoming more familiar with classics that inspired Indiana Jones. Frankly I was quite disappointed. It had great possibilities to develop. Charismatic adventurous protagonist with a key to the great treasure of the Incas. Love interest, defector from the Eastern bloc who stays illegally in the country. The somewhat friendly antagonist who is not so different from the main character. I wouldn't call him evil twin but rather possible dark (if somewhat pathetic) future of the protagonist if he doesn't reconsider his ways. Personally I liked the role it played in the plot. While one may consider all these clichés they prepare everything required for perfect adventure. The main problem is that for the adventure movie... there is not much adventure going on! I don't even mean action scenes but simply doing anything more than enjoying hospitality of the archaeologists! Still I enjoyed the atmosphere and my own expectations a lot. Thaks to that I can't call this movie bad.

BucknDaOdds A good cast and story line could have been an Indiana Jones adventure, but it just doesn't click for me.. Heston plays the bad guy that is looking out for himself going after the Inca treasure. But he fails to make you believe it, and instead comes off as just being sleazy. The real low for me is when Yma Sumac, the Inca Priestess, for lack of a better description of her part, sings. Wow. I have no idea what the director had in mind, but whale calls would have been better. If that is authentic Peruvian folk singing, then I'm a monkey's uncle. It just blows the entire movie for me. The scenery is magnificent and some of the camera shots outstanding. There is some entertainment value here, but the director could have got more mileage out of both the story line and his cast.

Marlburian This is the most disappointing Heston film I've seen, redeemed only by the scenery and Yma Sumac's singing. The sound on my recording wasn't great and I wasn't clear why Elena Antonescu was so important a refugee. She may have arrived in Peru with very little money but she was very well dressed, even after she had changed into clothing more suitable for her flight; thus she joined the long list of women able to retain their glamour despite arduous conditions. At least we were spared the cliché of her being frightened by wild life though Heston did get to spy on her as she bathed (not in a jungle pool, but indoors). Heston's character is far from likable and there was no-one much else to empathise with; Robert Young's archaeologist was very likable until he proposed marriage to Elena. (Sad old man.) Another commentator has noted how the gold starburst seems very lightweight, and early on in the film I noted a reference to it weighing 30 pounds, which makes the elderly Mitchell's flight even more athletic. That was just about the only action in the film.