Le amazzoni - donne d'amore e di guerra (1973)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Alfonso Brescia

Writers:

Mario Amendola (writer)
Bruno Corbucci (writer)

Release Date:

11 August 1973 (Italy)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy

Tagline:

Hell hath no fury like 10,000 women!

Plot:

A tribe of vicious female warriors terrorizes the countryside, and especially the males, until one day the men and some local villagers decide to fight back. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Warrior | Female Nudity | Sex | Amazon Tribe

Cast

Lincoln Tate	...	Zeno
Lucretia Love	...	Eraglia
Paola Tedesco	...	Valeria
Mirta Miller	...	Melanippe
Benito Stefanelli	...	Erno
Genie Woods	...	Antiope (as Genia Woods)
Solvi Stubing	...	Sinade (as Solvy Stubing)
Alberto Dell'Acqua	...	Llio
Roberto Alessandri
Giancarlo Bastianoni	...	Filodos
Frank Braña
Luigi Ciavarro	...	Turone
Pilar Clemens	...	Elperia
Sonia Ciuffi	...	Fara
Fernanda Dell'Acqua

Also Known As:

Battle of the Amazons (USA)
Beauty of the Barbarian (UK) (video title)
Las amazonas mujeres de amor y guerra (Spain)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18

Company:

Cinematografica Pelimex

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 4 (1997) (V)

Starts out well, ends up disappointing

This is basically yet another variation on the "Magnificent Seven" theme, only here we have (not 7 but) 4 people coming to protect a village and teach the villagers how to defend themselves (not against Mexican bandits but) against an aggressive army of Amazons. The film begins rather well: the grungy, dirty look, the stunts, the Amazons' mean-spiritedness, they all have an air of authenticity. But most of the action sequences occur at night, and it's often hard to see what's going on. And the biggest disappointment of all, during the big climactic battle nearly all the Amazons have their faces covered by white masks, apparently to camouflage the fact that they have been replaced by male stuntmen. Blech. At the end, there is a fierce swordfight between the bravest woman in the village (well played by the profoundly beautiful Paola Tedesco) and the Amazon Queen, but it's a case of "too little, too late". (**)