MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Queen of the Amazons (1946)

Directed by Edward Finnery and written by Roger Merton, this movie begins when Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) heads into the jungle to find her fiancee Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards). She goes to Akbar, India with Colonel Jones (John Miljan) who is Greg’s dad, along with Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge).

While Jean unpacks, Tondra (Vida Aldana) knocks on her door. She tells Jean that a safari was just attacked by a tiger and her husband Moya (Hassam Kayyam) lets slip that Jones was with ivory hunters. Then, he’s shot.

Everyone goes into the jungle on a boat along with Gary Lambert (Robert Lowery), who believes that women are bad luck. That is, until Jean shows him her gun skills. They also have a safari cook named Gabby (J. Edward Bromberg) who has a pet monkey. They’re out to stop the ivory poachers and hopefully find Jones.

It turns out that Jones is now with Zita, the queen of the Amazons (Amira Moustafa) but that’s fine. Everyone is swapping in the vines so to speak and Jean and Gary have obviously become a couple. For 1946, everyone is surprisingly cool with this switchery of couples. Way to be progressive.

Don’t have the box set? You can download this from the Internet Archive.