Pygar (Robert Woods) and his girlfriend Marcia persuade strongman
Maciste (Val Davis) to accompany them to the jungle, to the village of
Marcia's amazon tribe to steal the tribe's treasure. But once there, Pygar
and Marcia are immediately made captives while Maciste is chosen be the
queen (Alice Arno) to be the all-female tribe's stud - so Maciste has to
shag himself through 32 women, repeatedly. Normally, the studs of the
tribe are killed after they did their duty, but because Maciste fucks
quite so well and never tires, the queen falls in love with him. All that
fucking though got Maciste thinking: Pygar and Marcia only wanted to use
him as bait for the amazons while they bag the treasure themselves, and
they probably banked on him getting killed anyways ... That the queen
might have fallen in love with Maciste doesn't sit well with her former
favourite Yuka (Lina Romay), who soon makes up an elaborate lie that
Maciste has brought some kind of disease to the tribe, and sees to it that
the queen and her tribe turn on Maciste. Meanwhile she frees Pygar and
Marcia to help them get hold of the treasure. In an all-nude one-on-one
fight, Maciste defeats the queen, then exhausts her whole tribe in a big
orgy, then he helps Pygar, Marcia and Yuka make their way to the cave the
treasure is hidden in. Marcia dies somewhere along the way, but Pygar and
Yuka make it in ... and out witht he treasure, only to be killed by the
amazons. The queen decides to make Maciste king of the amazons, but the
next night, when all are sleeping after another orgy, Maciste makes an
escape ... Of course, this is little more than a silly softcore
sex film that doesn't have much to do with the Maciste films
of old and is more interested in showing women in the nude than anything
else - yet on a directorial level, Jess Franco makes this film better than
you expect it to be: The film's camerawork, including its many odd angles,
zooms, shaky pans and the like, borders the hypnotic, which is only
supported by very atmospheric colour compositions, Franco's unapologetic
voyeurism is refreshingly honest, his tongue-in-cheek narrative approach
is pleasingly unmoronic, and that most of the women are very pretty in all
their nakedness doesn't hurt one bit either. This all makes this film
not exactly great - it's still silly as hell -, but you'll probably enjoy
it more than you expect.
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