Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

MartinHafer The movie begins in India and quickly switches to Africa. A lady is looking for her fiancé who disappeared when going on safari. This is the thin plot that was created to justify the use of a bazillion feet of stock footage of African wildlife--some of which was grainy and in slow motion! In many ways, it felt and looked a lot like a second-rate Tarzan picture--that is until a bunch of White women appeared in the heart of Africa! These "Amazon women" were naturally luscious babes--complete with 1940s style perms!! I found this really easy to believe...and if you do as well, I have some oceanfront land to sell you in Iowa.At one point in the film before they luckily stumble upon the Amazons, a member of the search party says to another something like "I think I know who the guilty party is....I'll tell you in the morning". To me and those knowledgeable in B-movies, this means "I will be killed in the next scene...it's been nice knowing you"!! And, surprise, surprise, the guy is worm food in the very next scene! Well, just after this, the Amazon queen sends word to the party that she'd like to meet them--at which point she tells them that she is in love with the missing fiancé--and he wants to stay there with her. This is fortuitous, as his fiancée who led the expedition had already shown signs of falling for their guide. Once again, what amazing luck. And, when a traitor in their midst shows himself to be the murderer and is about to have the White men killed, luck of luck, the men manage to fight back and escape! Wow, what wonderful luck....once again!! Overall, it's a typical low-budget African adventure movie--about what you'd expect. A semi-engaging plot, occasionally competent acting, silly dialog, women standing by helplessly as the men fight (this was even true of the "Amazons" much of the time--what wimpy Amazons!) and lots of cheap stock footage.By the way, in a sad note, this bevy of White ladies have a very strong 1940s mentality about race, as the leader explains that they have talked about inviting in White men to join them--presumably because the Amazons are against interracial relations. However, it sure seems that when you live in the middle of nowhere in Africa, you can't be that choosy.

sol1218 (Some Spoilers) The movie "Queen of the Amazons" takes place not in the Amazon Basin in the jungles of South America but in darkest Africa's lion and elephant country. As for the fierce and feared, by the natives in the region, Amazon women warriors there about as threatening as the women on HBO's "Sex and the City" and as far as I could see-or count- there was only two of them in the entire movie.The movie actually begins in India where Jean Preston is looking for her husband, or is it fiancée, Greg who was lost on a tiger hunting safari a month earlier. As it turns out Greg ended up in Africa where he was taken prisoner by a group of woman Amazon Warriors lead by their leader the fearless and beautiful Queen Zita. With the switch in locations, from India to Africa, we get to see lots of stock footage of life in the wild as well as natives doing their thing in dance routines body piercing and an amazing, all caught on camera, lion hunt where the natives take on the king of beasts with nothing more then spears and arrows!To spice the story up a bit we have Greg working undercover for the local authorities to infiltrate and smash a contraband ring dealing with ivory tusks. Greg ends up-being the only man around- becoming Queen Zita's lover which greatly, after she finds that fact out from the Queen herself, upsets his fiancée Jean Preston. The real hero of the movie turns out to be Great White Hunter Gary Lambert who together with his friend and five star chief, or cook, Gabby leads the expedition into the jungle to find Greg.Gary soon realizes that there's a traitor-who's working for the illegal ivory smugglers-in his group that includes, besides Gabby, Greg's father Col. Jones this nutty professor & friend of the Preston family Wayne Monroe. Gary as well as the films director also realizes, in the movie really going nowhere fast, that he has to find out who the traitor is before the entire movie audience falls asleep from boredom!Well you can say the movie did pick up in the final minutes with Gary & Co. having it out with the contraband ring and the person behind it, after he came out in the open, getting his just deserts; A poison dart shot from a blowgun by the other Amazon-besides Queen Zita-in the movie. As death was quickly overtaking him the guy-the traitor- still had to go on reciting his awful poetry that besides those of us watching had even the wild animals, like monkeys and exotic birds, going nuts!

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.

silverscreen888 The film opens in India. We meet a professor type, a military type, a young seedy male type and a gorgeous female type. Hints are dropped about how dangerous such a half-civilized place can be. The young woman insists they find out what happened to "Greg", the Colonel's son who came here a month since; a desk clerk proves unhelpful, and a young woman watches them. A silhouetted figure tells the man to detain the party. The girl tells them of a safari attacked by a tiger--which might not have been "Greg's". Jean, (Patricia Morison) wants to talk with the young woman's husband, who was on the safari; we find out later, when Jean shows her "Greg's" picture, Greg was on the safari before the last. The husband is shot while telling them Greg was after a fortune in ivory, in "Kybo", in Africa. Fortunately, no one heard the shot; the young man, Wayne, suggest they leave. They board a clipper for Africa. Wayne wonders why Jean doesn't give up. She tells him to quit, but that she won't. Once arrived, the Colonel gets them help, a guide, Gary, who hates women in wild places (Robert Lowery). The Commissioner fills them in on the man. Jean has to shoot bullseyes in the man's targets to win him over. Gary recruits one Gabby as cook and we learn soon that Greg had been on a mission--a contraband ivory ring needed stopping. They kill two days, then are off. At a village, they buy supplies and hire bearers. The chief mentions what they all fear is a white woman. A flashback shows where a luxury liner sinks; the local "Amazons" are survivors of a shipwreck, females sent out in the available lifeboats. Days of trek later, they find a coin Jean gave to "Greg". That night Gary and Wayne drive off a lion, and Wayne and Gary argue; Wayne hints he knows who's responsible for incidents that have scared the bearers. That night we learn Jean and "Greg" weren't that happy, Wayne is a frustrated suitor too, and Gary is interested. Next dawn, they find a footprint--and Wayne, with a spear in his back. Gary says the print was made by a white man; he wonders if it were "Greg" who made it. This is a dangerous zone, with locusts and lions. The native who found the coin takes off, pursued by someone, only to be eaten by a lioness--the only one who knew the way to find the "Amazons". He wasn't killed because until then, no one knew who had the directions...The chief and his men hunt down the offending lioness. We meet the mysterious white goddess, on the knee of a man painting a picture--"Greg". She asks if he is tired of her; she's had the safari watched. Greg wants to meet the intruders. She insists he has to attend the Council--to keep her natives in line. They kiss. But she, Zita, has plans. Back at camp, her heralds say only 3 can enter her court; it will be Gary, the Colonel and Jean. Zita prepares for the audience. Greg asks her to detain the safari till he returns. The visitors are led in; Zita is cold. Gary notes a safari disappeared near here--everyone but Greg died therefore. Zita blames the trouble on her female warriors; she might have been able to save the others, she says. They are entertained, Zita finds out Jean has come for one reason--to find Greg. She wonders if ivory had anything to do with their coming also. It is why they have to enforce their isolation. Zita tells how her mother taught the children of the survivors, and she became leader after her. She wonders about getting white men for her women; then asks to speak to Jean alone; she says Greg loves her. Jean says if he wants to be free, she'll not hold him. Zita talks about the "law of the jungle", that if she had not said that, she would have had her killed; She admits she may be half savage, but Greg means that much to her--and then offers to be friends. This is a sophisticated and powerful scene in every respect. Zita rescues the Professor from two amorous Amazons and notes Gary and Jean have spent much time together. Gary interrupts her hints, to try to find out who is behind the nefarious goings on. It turns out to be Gabby the cook. Gabby pulls a gun and has the warriors herd everyone out but the ladies. The safari folk come to rescue the captives, with a bit of trickery; and Greg arrives with Amazons, so the Colonel and he have a talk while Gary is off rescuing the women. Gabby hurls a spear at Zita, but misses. Gary arrives there's a strong fight between the two; one of the Amazons kills Gabby with a dart. Next day, two happy couples are married. They go back with ivory heading to the real wild spots--New York nightclubs. Edward Finney produced, and also directed the film with Roger Merton its credited writer. The very talented cast included gorgeous Patricia Morison as Jean, powerful J. Edward Bromberg as "Gabby", handsome Robert Lowery as Gary, John Miljan as narrator and the Colonel, Amira Moustafa as Zita, Keith Richards as the luckless Wayne, Bruce Edwards as the Greg, and Wilson Benge as the Professor. The film's makers tried to break new ground in the plot; they used stocj footage cleverly blended it into the inexpensive narrative. This film is memorable for several good reasons but especially Patricia Morison.