Spoiler alert. This is the missing link between "Only Angels Have Wings" and Indiana Jones. Charlton Heston creates the hard drinking, unshaven, take women or leave 'em archetypal pilot, right down to his worn leather flight jacket and khaki pants. Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford should send him a case of Pisco, Peruvian hard liquor that tastes like gasoline, in gratitude. Charlton also seduces older tourist women on the side, for fun and profit!
The high point for me was the colorful native ritual dance, complete with men in pink tutus, shot on location at Macchu Picchu. This movie was made back when you could do anything you wanted, at any sacred site you wanted. Just when I thought it couldn't get any gayer, Yma Sumac pops up out of nowhere, singing "Babalu" in her unique style.
Thomas Mitchell, an old hand at chewing scenery from Stagecoach, Gone With The Wind and Only Angels Have Wings, returns to the Andes to ham it up as Heston's seedy competitor. The French woman of questionable virtue and Robert Young are given little to do. This movie is a true Bigfoot, and it deserves to be re-released. BC
The high point for me was the colorful native ritual dance, complete with men in pink tutus, shot on location at Macchu Picchu. This movie was made back when you could do anything you wanted, at any sacred site you wanted. Just when I thought it couldn't get any gayer, Yma Sumac pops up out of nowhere, singing "Babalu" in her unique style.
Thomas Mitchell, an old hand at chewing scenery from Stagecoach, Gone With The Wind and Only Angels Have Wings, returns to the Andes to ham it up as Heston's seedy competitor. The French woman of questionable virtue and Robert Young are given little to do. This movie is a true Bigfoot, and it deserves to be re-released. BC