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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Eleanor Parker | ... | Joanna Leiningen | |
| Charlton Heston | ... | Christopher Leiningen | |
| Abraham Sofaer | ... | Incacha | |
| William Conrad | ... | Commissioner | |
| Romo Vincent | ... | Boat Captain | |
| Douglas Fowley | ... | Medicine Man | |
| John Dierkes | ... | Gruber | |
| Leonard Strong | ... | Kutina | |
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Norma Calderón | ... | Zala (as Norma Calderon) |
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It's 1901. At 19, tough, stubborn Christopher Leiningen came to South America and built levees to claim thousands of acres of Rio Negro river land for a chocolate plantation. Now 34, with no knowledge of women, he recruits a mail-order bride in New Orleans. She's beautiful, independent, and arrives ready to be his stalwart helpmate; however, no one has told him she's a widow. He rejects her. During the next week, as she awaits the boat to take her back to the US, they learn that legions of army ants will strike in a few days' time. She joins the fight to save the plantation; their courage and his probable loss of all he's worked for may crack his resolve to send her away. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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insect attack | plantation owner | psychotronic film | mail order bride | swarm of ants |Taglines:
He dared the dreaded MARABUNTA - DEADLIEST FORCE IN ALL OF NATURE! See more »Parents Guide:
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3 March 1954 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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A remake was once in development in 2004 with Jonathan Hensleigh hired to write and direct the project but according to Hensleigh himself, once the regime change happened at Paramount, there was no longer any interest in making the film and has been since abandoned. See more »Goofs
When Heston goes to blow the sluice, it is quite apparent that the water is the same height both sides of it. Blowing that sluice couldn't possibly cause a flood of any kind. See more »Quotes
Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!See more »
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You don't hear the word `jungle' much these days ... Somehow, `The Naked Rainforest' doesn't do it for me. Say `the naked jungle' softly to yourself, and the images that come to mind will give you a good idea of what to expect. No, sadly you won't see the naked Eleanor Parker - this is 1954. But there IS a particularly erotic scene, all things considered...
Okay, maybe a trillion omnivorous ants weren't what you expected, either. Consider them a bonus. This is the story of a mail-order bride and a wealthy plantation owner (the sort of character likely to be played by Charlton Heston) who come to fall in love with each other partly because of savage external forces (ants), and partly, to be honest, because there's not much else to do in the middle of the jungle. The extended coda in which they must fight tooth and nail to save the plantation from ruin is thus not tacked on to the romance, but an integral part of it. And it's exciting even if you don't give a fig for the love story.