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Slave Girls
Prehistoric Women
Slave Women / Der Sklave der Amazonen
UK 1967
produced by Michael Carreras for Hammer, Seven Arts
directed by Michael Carreras
starring Martine Beswick, Edina Ronay, Michael Latimer, Stephanie Randall, Carol White, Alexandra Stevenson, Yvonne Horner, Sydney Bromley, Frank Hayden, Robert Raglan, Mary Hignett, Louis Mahoney, Bari Jonson, Danny Daniels, Steven Berkoff
written by Michael Carreras (as Henry Younger), music by Carlo Martelli, musical supervisor: Philip Martell, choreography by Denys Palmer
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Chasing after a wounded leopard to put it out of its misery, jungle
guide David (Michael Latimer) is captured by a secretive native tribe that
worships the white rhino. David is to be sacrificed to their deity, but
when he touches the horn of a statue of the white rhino, he's transported
back in time, back when the land of the white rhino was ruled by Kari
(Martine Beswick). David is captured by Kari's amazons, and he apparently
really pleases Kari, who wants him as her consort - but knowing how cruel
Kari is he refuses her and is thrown into prison with all the other men of
the tribe, who are then forced to do menial labor. But the men aren't the
only slaves of queen Kari. Turns out she and all dark-haired women are the
master race in her realm while all the blondes serve as slaves and court
dancers. And every few days or so, a blonde is sacrificed to the Devils -
apparently a neighbouring tribe Kari has arrangements with, along the
lines of blondes in exchange for peace. David however has caught the
attention of one blonde, Saria (Edina Ronay), who thinks he can lead the
slaves to overthrow their masters (or mistresses in this case). So she
persuades him to become Kari's consort after all, to have an eye on her
and determine the best moment for a revolt. However, Saria and David were
quick to fall in love, so when she sees David about to get intimate with
Kari, she blows their cover, and thus David is thrown back into prison
with the men and chained up, while Saria is prepared for sacrifice to the
Devils. However, David's fellos male slaves break his chains and they all
start a jolly revolt ... This movie was made first and foremost
to capitalize on the costumes and sets from One
Million Years B.C., to get high production value out of limited
resources. In comparison to the former film though, Slave Girls
pales, not only due to the lack of dinosaurs, it also suffers from a weak
story, very limited sets and a few too many ritualistic dance sequences.
At the same time though, the film also is high camp - I mean it's got
girls in fur bikinis in a slightly nonsensical story with tons of dancing
around a white rhino statue - so it can still be enjoyed, just probably
not for the intended reasons. But that said, not one of Hammer's
better efforts, just nostalgic fun.
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