The Witch from Beneath the Sea
Seeking material for a best-seller, an author travels to South America, accompanied by his attractive secretary. Soon after their arrival, they witness an ancient legend spring to life when a beautifu…
The Witch from Beneath the Sea
Seeking material for a best-seller, an author travels to South America, accompanied by his attractive secretary. Soon after their arrival, they witness an ancient legend spring to life when a beautiful girl is washed ashore. Seeking material for a best-seller, an author travels to South America, accompanied by his attractive secretary. Soon after their arrival, they witness an ancient legend spring to life when a beautiful girl is washed ashore, and then fly up the Amazon with an explorer, seeking a lost tribe. They have many adventures and the men compete for the girl. The explorer wins, the girl, preferring love to luxury, stays behind, and the writer, richer in experience, returns home alone to complete his task. On the South American coast, a woman who has been saved from the sea by native fishermen is blamed by them for a sudden scarcity of fish. When the natives threaten to force her back into the sea, she escapes and joins two explorers on an expedition to the Amazon jungle. One of them saves her from drowning, and after many other adventures she pairs off with him. Travelogue and triangle drama, finely photographed in Eastman Color. It concerns a writer, an explorer and a comely young woman who triumph over many hazards and solve their personal problems while combing the Amazon's upper reaches. The script is a bit uneven, but the leading players are adequate, the animal and native encounters carry quite a thrill and there is a nudist gimmick for good measure. Reliable "double bill." The picture dwells unduly on the legend sequence, but once the Amazon brush is reached scenes of wild life, visits to native villages and the love interest are vigorously scrambled. John Sutton makes a gentlemanly writer, Richard Olizar is a handsome and virile explorer, and Gina Albert, not unlike Brigitte Bardot, registers as the girl. Points of Appeal: Fascinating, if untidy, story, sound cast, authentic backgrounds, title, nudity and Eastman Color.
The Witch from Beneath the Sea
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Film Details
Seeking material for a best-seller, an author travels to South America, accompanied by his attractive secretary. Soon after their arrival, they witness an ancient legend spring to life when a beautiful girl is washed ashore. Seeking material for a best-seller, an author travels to South America, accompanied by his attractive secretary.
Soon after their arrival, they witness an ancient legend spring to life when a beautiful girl is washed ashore, and then fly up the Amazon with an explorer, seeking a lost tribe. They have many adventures and the men compete for the girl. The explorer wins, the girl, preferring love to luxury, stays behind, and the writer, richer in experience, returns home alone to complete his task.
On the South American coast, a woman who has been saved from the sea by native fishermen is blamed by them for a sudden scarcity of fish. When the natives threaten to force her back into the sea, she escapes and joins two explorers on an expedition to the Amazon jungle. One of them saves her from drowning, and after many other adventures she pairs off with him.
Travelogue and triangle drama, finely photographed in Eastman Color. It concerns a writer, an explorer and a comely young woman who triumph over many hazards and solve their personal problems while combing the Amazon's upper reaches. The script is a bit uneven, but the leading players are adequate, the animal and native encounters carry quite a thrill and there is a nudist gimmick for good measure.
Reliable "double bill." The picture dwells unduly on the legend sequence, but once the Amazon brush is reached scenes of wild life, visits to native villages and the love interest are vigorously scrambled. John Sutton makes a gentlemanly writer, Richard Olizar is a handsome and virile explorer, and Gina Albert, not unlike Brigitte Bardot, registers as the girl. Points of Appeal: Fascinating, if untidy, story, sound cast, authentic backgrounds, title, nudity and Eastman Color..