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Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:44:54 PMUNTAMED MISTRESS (195?):
Part 2 of a tacky 50s jungle double-feature, following LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS. This is another Ron Ormond junker of uncertain provenance, with various reports dating it to 1950, 1951, or 1956 (IMDB). It looks assembled out of at least two primary productions, with lots of random wilderness b-roll spliced in. And it's all crap!
Following the titles we open on a close-up of one of the male leads looking off-camera/into the distance. Is he looking out for jungle danger? Or pondering man's fragile place in the global ecosystem? Abruptly he turns his head back towards the camera for a beat as the shot widens to reveal he's standing next to a stricken Indian man and a medic. Male Lead delivers a first line of dialogue as if he's just entered the scene and discovered the doctor and his patient. Yep, it's pretty clear that Male Lead was waiting for Ron Ormond to call Action while the camera op checked focus on ML's close-up and then reframed - and Ron uses all the footage to open his jungle action film. What an auteur!
What follows is a long, poorly written, boring flashback to how the Indian man ended up laid out before them - but never mind that, because as soon as Ron has repurposed this irrelevant footage of otherwise unrelated characters, the Indian man is entirely forgotten. Instead we follow the Male Lead and two other white guys as they traipse around the jungle with "Velda", a dark-haired but otherwise seemingly caucasian/not particularly exotic dame who is nice-looking and a pretty good dancer yet is cursed to be branded as "the Other" by our white male protagonists. They dig her and all, but the problem is - the natives dig her too...... especially the most hairy, least civilized of those natives.
Indeed, UNTAMED MISTRESS is ignorant and unenlightened like most such films of its era, but only in its general attitude towards women and female sexuality
and sort of generally towards Indians and/or Africans as being, y'know, kinda' different. However, like Ormond's later PLEASE DON'T TOUCH ME, there's also a slender thread of criticality to UNTAMED MISTRESS (whether intentional or unintentional). Eventually Velda is nominally abducted by gorillas and the white guys must (try to) rescue her... but it's pretty clear that she doesn't mind - in fact, she lays down and lets herself be abducted! One nevertheless prepares oneself for the predictable denouement where the white guys make like Ethan Edwards in THE SEARCHERS, rescuing Velda, defeating her captors, and restoring the natural order of colonialism! However... I at least was surprised with a quite contrary climax!
UNTAMED MISTRESS isn't graphic, the action is tepid, and for the most part I found it extremely slow and unengaging. But, the gorilla suits are... damn good for the era! It isn't as if the gorillas look real - of course they look like men in hairy rubber costumes - but those hairy rubber costumes really get the proportions of real gorillas... especially their hindquarters. The things look big - the lead gorilla looks like he's played by a sumo wrestler - and thus they do actually come off as threatening, to the extent you can feel threatened by men in gorilla suits. (Personally I can.)
1.5/5 It's a terrible film, but it does surprise expectations in a kind of "good" way. No matter his eventual transition to onscreen Christian fanaticism, Ron Ormond was a sleazy exploitation filmmaker in his darkest heart of hearts.
Part 2 of a tacky 50s jungle double-feature, following LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS. This is another Ron Ormond junker of uncertain provenance, with various reports dating it to 1950, 1951, or 1956 (IMDB). It looks assembled out of at least two primary productions, with lots of random wilderness b-roll spliced in. And it's all crap!
Following the titles we open on a close-up of one of the male leads looking off-camera/into the distance. Is he looking out for jungle danger? Or pondering man's fragile place in the global ecosystem? Abruptly he turns his head back towards the camera for a beat as the shot widens to reveal he's standing next to a stricken Indian man and a medic. Male Lead delivers a first line of dialogue as if he's just entered the scene and discovered the doctor and his patient. Yep, it's pretty clear that Male Lead was waiting for Ron Ormond to call Action while the camera op checked focus on ML's close-up and then reframed - and Ron uses all the footage to open his jungle action film. What an auteur!
What follows is a long, poorly written, boring flashback to how the Indian man ended up laid out before them - but never mind that, because as soon as Ron has repurposed this irrelevant footage of otherwise unrelated characters, the Indian man is entirely forgotten. Instead we follow the Male Lead and two other white guys as they traipse around the jungle with "Velda", a dark-haired but otherwise seemingly caucasian/not particularly exotic dame who is nice-looking and a pretty good dancer yet is cursed to be branded as "the Other" by our white male protagonists. They dig her and all, but the problem is - the natives dig her too...... especially the most hairy, least civilized of those natives.
Indeed, UNTAMED MISTRESS is ignorant and unenlightened like most such films of its era, but only in its general attitude towards women and female sexuality
and sort of generally towards Indians and/or Africans as being, y'know, kinda' different. However, like Ormond's later PLEASE DON'T TOUCH ME, there's also a slender thread of criticality to UNTAMED MISTRESS (whether intentional or unintentional). Eventually Velda is nominally abducted by gorillas and the white guys must (try to) rescue her... but it's pretty clear that she doesn't mind - in fact, she lays down and lets herself be abducted! One nevertheless prepares oneself for the predictable denouement where the white guys make like Ethan Edwards in THE SEARCHERS, rescuing Velda, defeating her captors, and restoring the natural order of colonialism! However... I at least was surprised with a quite contrary climax! UNTAMED MISTRESS isn't graphic, the action is tepid, and for the most part I found it extremely slow and unengaging. But, the gorilla suits are... damn good for the era! It isn't as if the gorillas look real - of course they look like men in hairy rubber costumes - but those hairy rubber costumes really get the proportions of real gorillas... especially their hindquarters. The things look big - the lead gorilla looks like he's played by a sumo wrestler - and thus they do actually come off as threatening, to the extent you can feel threatened by men in gorilla suits. (Personally I can.)
1.5/5 It's a terrible film, but it does surprise expectations in a kind of "good" way. No matter his eventual transition to onscreen Christian fanaticism, Ron Ormond was a sleazy exploitation filmmaker in his darkest heart of hearts.
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 12:09:21 PM
Where did you find that necklace?
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What Was That Film? / Animated hand-drawn series abo...
Last post by wositelec - Today at 11:56:39 AMI'm looking for animated TV series. It's aired between 90's and early 2000's. It isn't American (maybe French, Italian, British etc.) and it isn't anime. The show is about Angels who live in the clouds (Heaven?) and they fight enemies. The Angels have athletic bodies, big white wings and golden helmets. Like I wrote, "the angels" are main characters probably - like a team of hawk-warriors with wings (there aren't typical angels). 2D animated series - European hand-drawn animation style. My friend says that animation was very similar to Flash Gordon (1996) or Mythic Warriors Guardians of the Legend (1998) and it isn't older than mid 90s.
Every help will be appreciated. There aren't:
Angel Wars: Guardian Force (2004)
Silverhawks (1986)
I asked almost everywhere - nobody don't remember. Thank you in advance.
Every help will be appreciated. There aren't:
Angel Wars: Guardian Force (2004)
Silverhawks (1986)
I asked almost everywhere - nobody don't remember. Thank you in advance.
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Good Movies / Re: 100 movies with FOOD in th...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 10:33:50 AMQuote from: M.10rda on Today at 07:40:25 AM13.) EATING RAOULWell apparently he's edible.
on that note, a two-fer...
16. WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE? (1993)
(think I'm going to stop bolding the food part in my replies now... looks a bit dumb)
#8
Good Movies / Re: 100 movies with FOOD in th...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 10:29:56 AM15. Bloody Oranges (2021)
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Bad Movies / Re: The Mandela Effect in movi...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:37:58 AMI appreciate anyone w/ discernment and discretion who is willing to refrain from watching any film for any reason or no reason. .......As someone who suffers from a compulsion to watch everything, including many things I should know well enough to skip.
.......As someone who suffers from a compulsion to watch everything, including many things I should know well enough to skip. #10
Good Movies / Re: 100 movies with FOOD in th...
Last post by claws - Today at 07:42:08 AM14. Licorice Pizza (2021)