Amazon Quest (1949)
Directed by S.K. Seeley
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Yards and yards of stock footage from the old German jungle actioner Green Hell were used to pad out the 1949 programmer Amazon Quest. Tom Neal stars as a Dutchman who journeys into the wilds of Brazil to find his father. Neal hopes to clear the name of his dad, who has been accused of deserting his family and friends for a native girl but who was actually on a secret mission on behalf of a major rubber-manufacturing concern. As he ventures deeper into a studio-built forest, Neal finds romance in the shape of Amazonian Carole Mathews. The stock footage is rather clumsily matched with the newly-shot scenes, but director S.K. Seeley manages to keep things moving fast enough to deflect the audience's attention from the film's flaws.
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attack, classmate, false-accusation, family-member, father, gore, honor-student, jungle, mission [quest], nuclear-power-plant, nudity, quest, radioactive-waste, river, safari, savage, search, student, teenagers, transformation, tropical
