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.

This movie is not exactly what I expected - only partially. I was expecting the group to speak to the Amazon Women's Queen and they did. I was also expecting to see quite a few beautiful Amazon Women throwing spears and things of that nature when the group arrived to find Jean Preston's fiancée Gregg - that didn't happen.The film's focus is more on the group trying to find Gregg and then it flips to scenes with the Amazon Queen and her captive Gregg - very, very little action in a film of this nature which was a little disappointing to me for some reason.It's okay for a one time watch if you happen upon it and it's definitely not a movie to seek out.2/10

Wife looking for her husband who disappeared on a safari finds her first clue in Akbar India, which leads to another safari in Africa. Her husband turns out to be living with a white woman named Zeta in the jungle, and he's not really interested in leaving.This low budget movie is surprising in that it really makes you feel that you're in the jungles of India and Africa. The African footages are beautiful and for that alone, this movie might be worth a watch. It also has the most scenes with tiger and lion actually wrestling a man - something we don't see n more modern movie.Acting and the entire mood of the movie is good. It's very watchable even if the premise of the story is little unbelievable.Although low budget, this movie is lot better than many modern fantasy movies that their artificial props takes away from the atmosphere.

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.