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John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma), who organizes safaris for a living, one
day finds beautiful Miriam (Ursula Andress) in the jungle, who suffers
from amnesia. In a seemingly unrelated incident, he & his partner
Howard (Enzo Bottesini) are hired by rich arms-dealer Van Daalen (Jack
Palance) to smuggle some weapons to native prince Udine, who wants to
become the chief of his brother's tribe. While John refuses the
offer, not wanting to cause tribal warfare, Howard accepts, lured
by 100.000,- Dollars. But when Van Daalen wants to get rid of John - who
he believes might do everything possible to stop the weapons delivery -
& has Udine attack the mission John stays at, Miriam regains her
memory & thus she & John find out that Van Daalen is really
after an uranium mire on the tribe's land he would get his hands on
would Udine be chief. Of course John can soon chase Udine & his
men away from the mission & even stop the weapons' delivery, but Van
Daalen has yet another ace up his sleeve, as he plans to just bomb the
tribe via airplane, & he asks Howard to be of assistance, & when
he refuses, shoots him. But Howard stays alive long enough to spill the
beans about this plan to John who takes up pursiut & finally forces
Van Daalen's plane to crash in the final airplane chase. John in the end
marries Miriam of course. While this might sound like a
straight African-adventure movie, it is actually more played like a
comedy, with even a chimpanzee as Giuliano Gemma's sidekick.
Unfortunately though, the movie is not really funny, with most of
Gemma's oneliners pretty stale & many of the comic supporting roles
(e.g. the incompetent gay police seargeant) a pure embarrassement. As an
adventure movie it fails on the other hand, as it just has standard
situations loosely connected to each other in no particular order
instead of a decent storyline, & little effort is made to create
suspense or uphold the tension. |