I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

I don't know if it's possible to make a film entirely out of stock footage, but QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS came awfully close. The plot involves the search for one Greg Jones, who went on safari and never returned. The search party includes his father, Col. Jones (no first name), and his fiancée Jean, who is only allowed to go because she's excellent with a gun. Hired to lead the jungle search party is one Gary Lambert, the venerable Great White Hunter and sexist. The party ends up at a village ruled by Zita the Amazon Queen, a white woman who was shipwrecked in Africa as a child and has never known life outside the jungle. Greg is there too, the sole survivor of an attack on his safari by ivory smugglers. It turns out, Greg was on an undercover mission to root out the smuggling ring. With Zita's help, he finally identifies and apprehends the ringleader. As often occurs in these films, there's a romantic sub-plot. In fact, there are two, but I'll spare you the banal details.For a good 75% of this hour-long film, we're watching stock footage of the African jungle. You could go to the kitchen and make yourself a sandwich in the time it takes to get from one plot point to another. In one scene, Jean watches gazelles through a pair of binoculars and asks, "Why are running so fast?" Then we see stock footage of the gazelles that is clearly in slow-motion. Jean is portrayed as a sharpshooter, but she suddenly turns helpless when her beloved dukes it out with the bad guy. The same thing happens to Zita, the supposedly fearless leader of a tribe of Amazon warriors. As soon as the hero and villain start throwing their fists around, Zita cowers in fear while her brave warriors all run away. The fight scene itself is hard to follow because the same stunt double was used for both the hero and the villain. Sure, it's a low-budget film, but give me a break! And of course, the Amazon warriors, who've spent their whole lives in the jungle, somehow look like they just stepped out of a beauty salon.QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS fails to establish the slightest sense of urgency or drama. We're told of all the dangers the search party could face, but rarely does the film show any. On the other hand, I never would have guessed the villain's identity, so kudos for that.

Although I found this movie to be enjoyable, I must say that it has its share of flaws. To that end, except for possibly Patricia Morison (as "Jean Preston") the acting wasn't very good. Likewise, the dialogue was cheap and the humor was really corny. Additionally, there was so much stock footage that I thought I was watching a documentary at times. Along with that there were obvious cuts made which caused the film to seem rather choppy at times. Be that as it may, as I mentioned earlier I still enjoyed it for no other reason than the fact that it was a good story which had little pieces of action, romance and mystery all rolled up into one. Also the fact that Patricia Morison was kind of pretty certainly didn't hurt either. In any case, while this film definitely could have been much better, overall suppose I have no major complaints with it and I rate the film as only slightly below average.

I saw this film on the science fiction classics DVD set, but knew that there would likely not be much science fictional in it -- after noting that it also contains "prehysterical" women or the Sons of Hercules films. There was a "bugologist" and some lessons in anthropology, which were quite fictional, even some unexpected dancing and poetry. It was fun, if like me you happen to like these kind of movies with corny, old-fashion, happy endings -- especially after a hard day's work thinking. The monkey and the raven did seem to be the most interesting actors, especially the monkey.There is even a serious side. It certainly reminds one of how things have changed since then in that then it was against the law to sell ivory without giving the colonial power its cut, while now it's supposedly illegal to do so to anyone at all.

While it brought back memories of a Saturday matinée, after seeing this on DVD I asked myself now that I'm much older, did it mention "Amazons" anywhere in the film? Or for that matter "Amazon Queen"? -- I think they called her the White Goddess. Were there any Amazons, besides the title's maid, if you then count that as two? And doesn't it take place in Africa when it should be in South America? Did all this escape the screenwriter? This movie is obviously aimed at kids. But parents should have a little talk about geography and mythology after viewing this with them. Maybe that's a good thing. Anyhow, you can see why I gave it a 3.