THE TREASURE OF THE AMAZON
Original Title : El tesoro del Amazonas Year : 1985 Director : René Cardona Jr. Writer : René Cardona Jr. , Jacques Wilson IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090200/ Genre : Adventure synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. This is the Cardona film I have been waiting for! I've sludged through a few days to finally get to a fun yet exploitative film that will leave me with a good taste in my mouth as I move on to the greener pastures of Mexican horror to close out my theme month. Take Indiana Jones and throw in a surly drunk, profanity, tits, blood and gore, and you have The Treasure of the Amazon. It's not a great film, and suffers a little from Cardona's talkative down times, but this one is worth the time most definitely. Stuart Whitman plays the aforementioned surly drunk, Gringo, a man who has spent years in the jungle looking for treasures that may or may not even exist. He's...