Love Slaves of the Amazons

1957 film by Curt Siodmak

December 1957 (1957-12)

Running time

81 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Love Slaves of the Amazons is a 1957 American adventure film written, produced and directed by Curt Siodmak and starring Don Taylor, Gianna Segale and Eduardo Ciannelli.

Plot

An archaeologist (Don Taylor) and his partner (Eduardo Ciannelli) encounter a society of women warriors, who want to enslave men.

Cast

Don Taylor as Dr. Peter Masters
Gianna Segale as Gina Vanni
Eduardo Ciannelli as Dr. Crespi
Harvey Chalk as Aldemar Silva
John Herbert as Hotel Clerk
Wilson Vianna as Fernando (as Wilson Viana)
Eugenio Carlos as Carlos - Fernando's brother
Ana Maria Nabuco as Queen Conori
Tom Payne as Dr. Mario Dellamano
Gilda Nery as Amazon Guard
Louis Serrano as Rescue Pilot

Production

The movie was filmed in Eastmancolor, in Argentina, in 1956, along with Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, and used some of the same cast. Curt Siodmak claimed to have made the film because he had 10,000 feet of color film left over from "Curucu" but could not export the unused film.^[1]

Reception

According to an online New York Times review, "You knew what you were in for when you saw the title, so don't grouse."^[2]

References

^ Weaver, Tom (2000). Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes:The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Interviews. McFarland. p. 308. ISBN 9780786407552.
^ Hal Erickson (2015). "Love Slaves of the Amazon (1957)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 8, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2015.

External links

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Love Slaves of the Amazons at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Love Slaves of the Amazons at the TCM Movie Database
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Works by Curt Siodmak

Novel

Donovan's Brain (1942)

Film

Screenplay	People on Sunday (1930) Le Bal (1931) F.P.1 (1932) Girls Will Be Boys (1934) It's a Bet (1935) The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935) The Tunnel (1935) Abdul the Damned (1935, uncredited) Non-Stop New York (1937) Her Jungle Love (1938) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Black Friday (1940) The Ape (1940) Pacific Blackout (1941) The Wolf Man (1941) Invisible Agent (1942) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) The Climax (1944) Frisco Sal (1945) Shady Lady (1945) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) Bride of the Gorilla (1951) The Magnetic Monster (1953) Riders to the Stars (1954) Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
Story	Son of Dracula (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) Berlin Express (1948) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Director	People on Sunday (1930) Bride of the Gorilla (1951) The Magnetic Monster (1953) Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1957) Love Slaves of the Amazons (1958) The Devil's Messenger (1961, uncredited)