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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">   <p>Marlene (Dorothy Haney), the stepdaughter of a South American jungle prison's commandant (Niles Andrus), has never seen the outside world because she is kept by her stepdad almost like a prisoner, and he has even made preparations for her to marry his successor, the violent warden Whorf (Robert Christopher) - so she plans what all prisoners plan, escape. But since she is allowed to move more freely around the premises than a normal prisoner, she is able to prepare much better, and she even finds two accomplices in political prisoner Duvall (Robert Clarke) and his best friend Dione (William White).<p>When fate intervenes though, Marlene's perfectly laid-out plan amounts to nought, and instead of on a plane to Brazil, the three escapees find themselves in the jungle and have to face all the usual jungle dangers, including a puma that kills Dione. They could make a whole lot more headway if they were just sticking to the nearby river, but that is patrolled by Whorf and his right-hand man Cabot (Steve Conte). Then Fate intervenes again though, and Whorf and Cabot are captured by a tribe of headhunters, who prepare them for sacrifice. Now that sounds like a lucky break for Duvall and Marlene, but Duvall is also a good guy, so he simply can't let Whorf and Cabot die, even if they are his arch enemies, and thus he burns down the native village just to free them. Cabot dies during the escape, but Whorf makes it to safety with Duvall and Marlene, and while fighting off the natives, he has actually got his hands on Duvall's gun, and now he theoretically has him and Marlene in his power - but he has learned from the experience and lets the man he has sworn to capture and the woman he wanted to marry go, because there are things more important than his stubborness ...<p> <p>The title might be a bit misleading because there is very little actual <i>terror of the bloodhunters</i> in this film (safe from the finale), or in fact too many scenes featuring headhunters to begin with, but that aside, the film isn't too bad, your typical jungle adventure basically, with lots of stock footage interwoven into the plot rather expertly. Sure, the movie is a bit talky at times (a trademark of director Jerry Warren but also a common occurence in 1950's B-movies) and the finale could have been a bit more exciting (which might have been prevented by the stock footage on hand), but in all, the film is rather well-paced and make up for rather entertaining 70+ minutes - no classic perhaps, but not bad either. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2010"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>