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Sheena: Queen of the Jungle - The Rival Queen
episode 20
USA 1956
produced by Edward Nassour, William Nassour (executive), Don Sharpe (executive) for Nassour Studios
directed by Carl K.Hittleman
starring Irish McCalla, Chris Drake, Buddy Baer, Roxanne Reed, Virgil Richardson, John Stevenson Lang, Lee Weaver, Enrique Lucero
screenplay by Joel Murcott, based on the comic by Will Eisner, S.M. Eiger, music by Eli Briskin
TV-series Sheena, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Circus strongman Bull (Buddy Baer) breaks out of jail together with
hypnotist Turpin (John Stevenson Lang) and native Rafik (Virgil
Richardson), and there's just one thing on his mind: To have his revenge
on Sheena (Irish McCalla), who has put him in prison in the first place
(in the episode The Lash).
To this end, he has Turpin put his wife Helen (Roxanne Reed) under a spell
and into a costume to make her some sort of soothsayer, then poisons a
river and ultimately tries to make two tribe go to war against one
another. Plus, the three baddies capture Sheena, and when she does manage
to escape, its through crocodile infested waters - which she somehow
survives with no explanation given nor any action shown. Ultimately,
Sheena manages to break Turpin's spell on Helen just before the two native
tribes do go to war, and from here on it's no big deal to recapture the
baddies and return peace to the jungle. Mildly amusing for its
over-complicated plot full of hair-raisingly bad schemes and a certain
camp factor in the person of the (made-up) soothsayer, this is indeed
nothing special but your typical 1950's jungle-TV-series.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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