{"id":38279,"date":"2023-01-28T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38279"},"modified":"2023-01-28T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:22:15","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/01\/28\/belated-movie-reviews-802\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’re all giving me heartburn, so I’m going to whip out this gun and fix it.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The attentive audience member will readily see the hands of the creators of Queen Of The Amazons<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1946) in their work. They’ll be glimpsed up the backsides of the characters, who all seem to blow in the wind; mouthing the horribly limp dialog; padding the paper thin plot with African savanna populated by the exotica of lions, lions, lions, giraffes, monkeys, zebras, one quick shot of a hippo, and lions savaging the members of various tribes and one white guy; characters betraying no ambition beyond obtaining husbands, both Amazonian and domestic; and generally out to make a buck and not tell a story.<\/p>\n

My Arts Editor commented that this one was not worth picking apart. Sure, it’s an anti- ivory-trade story, but it’s tension free. The lady’s fiancee is missing? Sure, she’s charging right out to find him in the wilds, with nary a worry in the world. Some poor Indian gets shot while telling her what the fiancee was up to? Pity about that, too bad. Safari staff get mauled by a lion? Ah, yeah. Amazon Queen’s going to marry your fiancee? Nyah. OH, OK, so she’ll marry another white guy!<\/p>\n

The best parts are the crow (“Jimmy, go get the commissioner a match!”) and the poetry-composing cook.<\/p>\n

Yecccccccccccccccch.<\/p>\n