River of Death (1989)

An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost... See full summary »

Director:

Steve Carver

Writers:

Alistair MacLean (novel), Andrew Deutsch (screenplay),

Stars:

Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Dudikoff	...	John Hamilton
Robert Vaughn	...	Wolfgang Manteuffel
Donald Pleasence	...	Heinrich Spaatz
Herbert Lom	...	Colonel Ricardo Diaz
L.Q. Jones	...	Hiller
Sarah Maur Thorp	...	Anna Blakesley
Cynthia Erland	...	Maria
Foziah Davidson	...	Dalia
Victor Melleney	...	Blakesley
Rufus Swart	...	Pare
Gordon Mulholland	...	Fanjul
Alain D. Woolf	...	Serrano (as Alain Woolf)
Lindsey Reardon	...	Kellner
Goliath Davids	...	The Shaman
Ian Yule	...	Long John SIlver

Storyline

An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doing his experiments on people in the same place.

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Plot Keywords:

lost city | doctor | nazi | amazon | amazon jungle | 

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Genres:

Adventure

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 September 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Alistair MacLean's River of Death

Filming Locations:

South Africa

Box Office

Gross:

$535,031 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Breton Film Productions, Cannon International, Pathe Communications

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This adaptation of an Alistair MacLean novel involves Nazism as did the arguably most classic version of one of MacLean's books The Guns of Navarone which was directed by 'J Lee Thompson' and was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and won for Best Special Effects. During the era that this movie was made, Thompson was regularly working making Charles Bronson vehicles for Cannon Films, the production company that made this MacLean adaption, but Thompson did not direct this MacLean movie.

User Reviews

Garbage!!!

This is the worst film ever and as waste of time, money and life as I watched painfully throughout the whole of film what I thought was a jungle action adventure but trailed off into the unknown and found itself in the genre of crapness. DO NOT WATCH UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!