Hollywood at its worst believes that all jungle women must wear some sort of cat skin because everyone that I see (including a few with Ms. Maria Montez) has them clad in these films. This goes back to silent movies, and even into comedies like Wheeler and Woolsey's "So This is Africa". So it is no surprise that the female title character (Amira Moustafa) in this is wearing such an outfit, and has violent tendencies towards the heroine (Patricia Morison) who is searching for her missing husband. She is being escorted by handsome Robert Lowery (whom we are told at the start of the film finds women useless creatures) and goes out of her way to prove the fact that she is certainly not useless. There's a series of attempted murders and a few shots of people being attacked by lions (mostly badly recorded stock footage) and a shot of someone being obviously impaled with a spear who ends up without a scratch on them.Ridiculously juvenile adventure yarn that wastes the Broadway great Patricia Morison in a thankless role. Fortunately, "Kiss Me Kate" and "The King and I" were just around the corner, so her movie career has been overshadowed by the stage. Robert Lowery is a handsome hero, but Amira Moustafa is annoyingly bad and J. Edward Bromberg is totally over the top. Sometimes, these "B" movies can be "fun bad" or an "artistic surprise", but in the case of "Queen of the Amazons", this wouldn't even warrant a visit on "Mystery Science Theater".

Catchy title belies the meagre production values and soap opera rendition concerning a woman (Morison) searching for her missing fiancé (Edwards) in the unforgiving jungles of Africa. A stern voice-over narrates the picture as the actors recount their experiences through flashback, which amount to piles upon piles of stock footage. There's a few well-orchestrated animal attacks (tiger, lion) and some sexual tension between leading man Lowery and Morison, while an elusive Amazonian woman (Moustafa) and the hunt for a murderous ivory smuggler spices up the adventure.Kudos to the animal wranglers who've done a pretty decent job with their charges, while the leads Morison and action-man Lowery, acquit their roles with melodramatic intensity. Undistinguished cast otherwise features familiar names Darby Jones in a bit part as a native chief, and Cay Forester as a leopard-skin bikini-clad maid to Moustafa, a very 'westernised' jungle monarch, but it must be acknowledged, not an especially fluent actress.Typical jungle frolic is a spear-chucking success on a B-grade scale, and while nothing too serious, possibly earns a cult credit or two for its absurd hokum, gloriously typified by its banal closing line "wild lifestyle? .. ha, you should see our nightclubs". Cut and print.

"Join us on a woman's thrill-packed expedition in search of Greg, the love of her life, who seems to be lost in the African jungle. Unfortunately, her guide, Gary, sees her, and all women, as dead weight on such a trip. Despite this, he agrees to help her while searching for ivory poachers. In the course of their journey they must face imminent danger from man-eating lions and a plague of locusts. Eventually, they encounter a lost tribe of Amazon warriors. Is Greg held captive by their desirable 'White Goddess' (titular Queen) or is he there of his own free will?" asks the DVD sleeve synopsis. You won't care.Some of the zealously inserted stock footage isn't bad, but it's edited in too sloppily to have any good effect. Leading players Robert Lowery (as Gary Lambert) and Patricia Morison (as Jean Preston) are about as good as you can get, considering the material; they appear to see the humor in the material, without breaking into fits of laughter. A couple of the supporting players appear to be taking their roles far too seriously, which helps make the movie unintentionally funny. Former silent child star Wesley Barry is credited as "Assistant Director," which became a moderately successful second career.** Queen of the Amazons (1/15/47) Edward Finney ~ Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison, J. Edward Bromberg, John Miljan

(Some Spoilers) The movie "Queen of the Amazons" takes place not in the Amazon Basin in the jungles of South America but in darkest Africa's lion and elephant country. As for the fierce and feared, by the natives in the region, Amazon women warriors there about as threatening as the women on HBO's "Sex and the City" and as far as I could see-or count- there was only two of them in the entire movie.The movie actually begins in India where Jean Preston is looking for her husband, or is it fiancée, Greg who was lost on a tiger hunting safari a month earlier. As it turns out Greg ended up in Africa where he was taken prisoner by a group of woman Amazon Warriors lead by their leader the fearless and beautiful Queen Zita. With the switch in locations, from India to Africa, we get to see lots of stock footage of life in the wild as well as natives doing their thing in dance routines body piercing and an amazing, all caught on camera, lion hunt where the natives take on the king of beasts with nothing more then spears and arrows!To spice the story up a bit we have Greg working undercover for the local authorities to infiltrate and smash a contraband ring dealing with ivory tusks. Greg ends up-being the only man around- becoming Queen Zita's lover which greatly, after she finds that fact out from the Queen herself, upsets his fiancée Jean Preston. The real hero of the movie turns out to be Great White Hunter Gary Lambert who together with his friend and five star chief, or cook, Gabby leads the expedition into the jungle to find Greg.Gary soon realizes that there's a traitor-who's working for the illegal ivory smugglers-in his group that includes, besides Gabby, Greg's father Col. Jones this nutty professor & friend of the Preston family Wayne Monroe. Gary as well as the films director also realizes, in the movie really going nowhere fast, that he has to find out who the traitor is before the entire movie audience falls asleep from boredom!Well you can say the movie did pick up in the final minutes with Gary & Co. having it out with the contraband ring and the person behind it, after he came out in the open, getting his just deserts; A poison dart shot from a blowgun by the other Amazon-besides Queen Zita-in the movie. As death was quickly overtaking him the guy-the traitor- still had to go on reciting his awful poetry that besides those of us watching had even the wild animals, like monkeys and exotic birds, going nuts!