Virgin Sacrifice (1959)

Director:

Fernando Wagner

Writer:

V.J. Rheims

Stars:

David DaLie, Angélica Morales, Antonio Gutiérrez

Cast

Credited cast:
David DaLie	...	Samson
Angélica Morales	...	Morena
Antonio Gutiérrez	...	Tumic
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Linda Cordova	...	Sacrifice
Lydia Goya	...	Vicuni Tribe Dancer
Clarence Landry	...	Vicuni Tribe Dancer
Joe Lanza	...	Vicuni Tribe Dancer
Bob Larca	...	Vicuni Tribe Dancer
Philip Pearl	...	Indian
Nina Peron	...	Vicuni Tribe Dancer
Hamdy Sayed	...	Indian
Fernando Wagner	...	Fernando

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

virgin sacrifice | jungle | exploitation

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Taglines:

A new kind of Jungle Drama. Actually filmed in Guatemala and featuring members of the savage Vicuni Indian tribe!

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Genres:

Adventure | Action

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Fury of the Jungle

Company Credits

Production Co:

Pan American Productions Inc.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

67 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Tropicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 9 (2002)

User Reviews

Jungle pulp junk

Dubbed dialog, artless lighting, and science-film acting weaken what is otherwise a terrible adventure movie. The muddled and repetitive story concerns a white hunter who goes to South America, where he meets pretty Morena, a colleague's daughter. A native comes to town and picks Morena to be the tribe's virgin sacrifice. He and his pals kill papa and drag her off, spurring the white hunter to rescue her.

Early on, we get a little bondage nudity (a surprise for 1959) and jaguar wrasslin'. An excessive cantina dance sequence gets in the way, altho I'm not sure of what... the worst dream-sequence effects ever? Most of the film is a pursuit thru the jungle... with lame booby traps (as usual, pythons stand in for venomous stakes) and a climactic death match of the sort that the original Star Trek was so fond of.

Filmed in color, the location shots look surprisingly good (as does the captive Morena), but are edited with badly-matched studio shots. The producers would have been better off just shooting stock footage to sell to more serious film-makers. The trailer for Tarzana: The Wild Girl had more thrills.