Jungle Warriors
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| Jungle Warriors (Euer Weg führt durch die Hölle) | |
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| Directed by | Ernst R. Von Theumer |
| Written by | Robert Collector, Marc Furstenberg |
| Starring | Sybil Danning, Paul L. Smith, Dana Elcar |
| Release date(s) | 1984 |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country |  West Germany |
| Language | English |
Jungle Warriors, AKA The Czar of Brazil (Euer Weg führt durch die Hölle on Germany) is an action film, released in USA on November 1984. The movie was shot on Mexico and the old West Germany, but recreating the scenario of a South American jungle. Though is not a well-known film, it stars -among other recognized names- Sybil Danning (a famous American B-movie actress), Dana Elcar (McGyver’s boss on the celebrated TV series) and Paul L. Smith (who appeared in movies like Midnight Express, Dune and Red Sonja). Renowned movie star Dennis Hopper had a secondary role on the film, but later was replaced by actor Marjoe Gortner.
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[edit] Plot and other stuff
A group of gorgeous american models take a long trip to South America, to participate of a photo session on a location deep in the jungle, apparently somewhere around Peruvian tropical forest. While flying over a cocaine plantation, their plane is shot down by Cesar -a dangerous drug lord- and the girls are taken prisoner by his army. Cesar suspects that an undercover police is among the models -actually one of the beautiful women is an infiltrated special agent- so the villain orders their mercenaries to drag the girls into his dungeon for interrogation. After being tortured by Angel -Cesar’s wife- and cruelly gang-raped by the soldiers, the models are imprisoned on an underground cell, waiting for Cesar to decide if they will be executed or kept as slaves for soldier’s “entertainment”. Nonetheless, with the help of an old female servant, they manage to escape from the basement jail and get some guns. On their way to freedom, they get in the middle of a Mafia member’s high meeting, right on Cesar’s manor, so they must fight fire with fire in order to take revenge and escape alive.
The movie follows the line of sexploitation films (with a mix of Women in prison film and rape and revenge films), being a low-budget production with some nudity and rough sexual-violence stuff. In fact, it contains a large rape scene, showing the defenseless girls -tied by the wrists to the dungeon’s ceiling and fences- being sadistically stripped and abused by dozens of soldiers. Precisely, this strong scene made the film rated R and, consequentially, couldn’t aim to a mass audience. On later releases -and T.V. version- this scene has been deleted, in order to allow a better merchandising.
[edit] Cast and crew
Director … Ernst R. Von Theumer
Writers … Robert Collector, Marc Furstenberg.
Cast:
- Nina Van Pallandt ... Joanna Quinn
- Paul L. Smith ... Cesar Santiago
- John Vernon ... Vito Mastranga
- Alex Cord ... Nick Spilotro
- Sybil Danning ... Angel
- Marjoe Gortner ... Larry Schecter
- Woody Strode ... Luther
- Kai Wulff ... Ben Sturges
- Dana Elcar ... D'Antoni
- Suzi Horne ... Pam Ross
- Mindi Iden ... Marci
- Kari Lloyd ... Brie Klinger
- Ava Cadell ... Didi Belair
- Myra Chason ... Cindy Cassidy
- Angela Robinson ... Monique Rogers
