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Sunday, April 14, 2019

RIVER OF EVIL 1963 (SINISTER CINEMA)

Obscure, but fun German made adventure film.

Barbara Rutting stars as Susanne, a young woman seeking to find out the mysterious circumstances in which her father disappeared.

The film opens with a raid on a small village in the Amazon jungle in which the people of the tribe are taken as slaves by the raiders and a white man is also kidnapped with them.

We skip forward to a while in the future when Susanne has traveled to the Amazon to seek her missing father and she meets up with Pedro, a ladies man who runs rubber up the river for a living.

Pedro (Harald Leipnitz) takes her on his boat and they start looking for her father. Before too long they are waylaid by pirates and Susanne is held captive while Pedro escapes, vowing to return for her.

He indeed returns after a short while and rescues her, but not before she learns that the man named Napoleon (Oswaldo Loureiro) who has been keeping her captive was also responsible for her fathers death.

Pedro helps her escape, but during the course of their flight they encounter the usual jungle terrors such as crocodiles, piranha and headhunters. I found this film to be a good attention keeper and just a good watch for a cold night.

Leading lady Rutting is lovely to look at and handles her part very well as does the entire cast. Again, fun film.

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