The stunning early Bond girl Ursula Andress is front and center here, playing Susan Stevenson, who with her brother Arthur (Antonio Marsina) travels to New Guinea in search of her husband. There, they hook up with one of hubby's colleagues, Professor Edward Foster (Stacy Keach), who agrees to help them, but who in fact has his own agenda. On an offshore island, they encounter the local Puka cannibal tribe, which proceeds to treat Susan as some sort of golden goddess.Director Sergio Martino ("Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key", "Torso") makes sure that his audience has a good time with this entry into Italy's popular cannibal / jungle genre. The truth be told, however, there are very limited amounts of actual cannibalism; this is more of a straightforward jungle adventure albeit spiced up with gore and sexy stuff. The film is quite entertaining for a while, but it really kicks up a notch with its final quarter, a grand exercise in exploitation complete with sodomy and castration. Fans of this genre will be pleased to note the requisite dose of nudity, especially from the lovely star of the piece.The widescreen photography of these jungle settings is exquisite, and there is some action and suspense accompanied by a very nice soundtrack composed by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis. However, there is also the standard human-on-animal and animal-on-animal brutality that viewers often come to expect. At least one instance of the latter was deliberately contrived, it is unfortunate to note.Andress mostly just looks great; her performance is nothing to shout about. But Marsina is a very effective antagonistic jerk, Keach is solid as always, and Claudio Cassinelli does fine as the helpful adventurer Manolo.All in all, if you've enjoyed other films in this vein like "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Cannibal Ferox", you'll probably enjoy this one as well.Eight out of 10.

If you wish to see this epic, get the unrated, uncut version. This movie would merely be dopey in the sanitized version. Seeing the whole enchilada just enlarges the stupidity of this film, instead of making it gross. Ursula Undress- er- Andress- must have not flashed her pecs in a while, which is why she is in this movie. Stacy Keach must have needed the money. There is no other reason for them to be in this awful waste of celluloid.

Ursula Andress is the wife of a British archaeologist who has been missing since going on an expedition into a New Guinea jungle and desires to find his whereabouts. She enlists the aid of Stacy Keach, another professor / archaeologist, renowned but eccentric and just a little aloof. Andress' brother, Antonio Marsina, insists on accompanying them and they set off for a specific island which just might contain a cannibalistic tribe known as the Puka. Keach harbors a secret, he was once associated with the Puka and suffers horrible nightmares as a result, emotionally scarred for participating in their tribal ceremonies in order to co-exist with them and survive. While on the island, Andress, Keach, and Marsini encounter a mission operated by a priest who leads a group of people which inhabit it. Andress is almost killed by a Puka hunter, covered in chalk and wearing a hardened mask carved from tree trunk, saved by Claudio Cassinelli, an outsider who has lived on the island for some time. Cassinelli reluctantly agrees to lead Andress, Keach(..whose knee was crushed by the stone battle ax from the Puka warrior who just so happened to be his guide and helper), and Marsini to the mountain..facing unprecedented trials and danger along the way, including violent rapids and a scary ascent up a waterfall mountain. Soon Cassinelli will discover to his horror Andress and Marsini's true motives for ascending up the mountain..Relatively well made and exciting adventure, featuring exotic locales and numerous elements which will definitely attract the cannibal genre crowd. Martino includes excerpts of animal violence, particularly a sickening act where we see a lengthly sequence showing a monkey's head caught in the mouth of a python(..the fact that this was purposely committed by the crew makes it a pretty repulsive scene, completely inappropriate and incorrigible). Groovy croc attack on one of Keach's guides(..biting the poor guy's arm off), along with an animal trap seizing another member of his crew, causing sharpened stones to stab him multiple times while hanging upside down and powerless. You also have a beheading and castration, along with a disemboweling, including a cracked skull revealing damaged brains. Cassinelli is extraordinary as the man Andress depends on, assuming the heroic role that seemed meant for Keach, who isn't quite the same after the attack that leaves him crippled / wounded. As expected, the intended audience get their shocking "dinner scene" as the cannibal tribe have a grand feast after removing organs and guts from a murdered human. Andress is stripped of her clothes and is completely naked, being prepared by the Puka, "painted" and ward-robed as their goddess, even forced to eat human meat! Keach is fascinating to watch, expressing underlying emotional distress and determination. The film establishes him in the early going as the leader of the expedition, with Cassinelli entering the picture midway through. Cassinelli has this terrific scene where he is able to secure snakes which offer possible harm to Andress and Marsina. The film's true villain is Marsina who slowly reveals himself to be a self-absorbed cretin, letting someone die because he was holding him back in his personal quest to satiate his avarice.While I found some of the violent animal footage effective, if tiresome, I thought the monkey being devoured by the python was rather too gratuitous, and while I don't want to beat a dead horse, the way this is executed by Martino and his handlers is not only inhumane, but despicable.

Susan Stevenson & her brother-in-law Arthur arrive in New Guinea to search for her husband Henry, who has gone missing while on a secret expedition to Roka Island, which is forbidden to all outsiders. Along with Henry's friend Edward Foster, an anthropologist, to guide them the group head for the island. Once there they discover that Henry had discovered deposits of uranium. But the group is then captured by the Puka, a tribe of cannibals.There is nothing quite like the Italian cannibal film. This sub-genre started in 1972 with Umberto Lenzi's "Deep River Savages / The Man from Deep River" & continued on until 1981, with such 'classics' as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, CANNIBAL FEROX & ZOMBI HOLOCAUST.As with all these films, "Mountain" is nothing more than a collection of gore-laden shock effects. We have a decapitation, a guy caught in a stake cage trap, a cannibal being castrated for trying to rape star Ursula Andress, a dwarf's brains splattered all over a rock & a corpse with a Geiger counter rammed into its rib cage. I would recommend this for gorehounds such as myself, but for all others to avoid.