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They sought a priceless ruby. They found the adventure of a lifetime!
An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
Jungle Raiders
1985 ‘La leggenda del rubino malese’ Directed by Antonio Margheriti
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Alternative Titles
Captain Yankee, Die Jäger der goldenen Göttin, Ο Θρύλος του Κόκκινου Ρουμπινιού, 黄金美女的追逐
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Theatrical
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USAPG-13
29 Aug 1985
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Germany16
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Germany
29 Aug 1985
- Theatrical16
USA
01 Aug 1985
- TheatricalPG-13
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I'm usually a fan of Antonio Margheriti's (cue in Eli Roth's character from Inglorious Basterds) brand of rip-off entertainment, but this wasn't working for me.
If the title doesn't give it away for you, JR takes a lot of cues from Raiders of the Lost Ark. In fact, the entire opening scene is a step by step recreation of that movie's opening scene, but with a twist.
Christopher Connelly plays our lead, Captain Yankee (yes, really), Luciano Pigozzi (the Italian Peter Lorre) is his loveable help, Lee Van Cleef stars as the local police chief and Mike Monty (a staple in Filipino exploitation cinema) has a minor role as a professor going on an expedition.
An adventure movie that isn't…
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One of your livelier Margheriti jungle gyms, more of a light, jaunty caper than his usual Indiana Jones knockoffs. Features a frequently seated, very arthritic Lee Van Cleef.
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Im Discount Dschungel mit Histo
Da sprengt Antonio Margheriti wieder mal den halben Urwald in die Luft und vergisst dabei, dass er doch auch noch eine Story erzählen muss.Captain Yankee und sein Freund Gin Fizz sind darauf spezialisiert reichen Ausländern ein Abenteuer zu bieten, das komplett gefälscht ist, da die beiden ein Abkommen mit den Eingeborenen haben. Bis einiges Tages Maria Cortez auf den Plan tritt und die beiden erpresst, um einen Rubin zu finden.
Wenn man schon relativ viele Abenteuerfilme gesehen hat, schlägt man sich vor allem damit rum, dass man nix Neues mehr geboten bekommt. "Jäger der goldenen Göttin" gehört da leider zu, denn der arbeitet, schon die Checkliste, was in so einen Film gehört Punkt für…
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Was ein Jungle Cruise heute macht, das bekam der italienische Regie-Export Anthony M. Dawson aka Antonio Margheriti (Yor: Einer gegen das Imperium) Mitte der 80er-Jahre genauso gut - wenn nicht gar sympathischer und weniger affektiert - auf die Reihe! Dass das Budget auch nur einem Bruchteil dessen entsprochen haben mag, was Jungle Cruise verschlungen hat, braucht man gar nicht groß erwähnen.
Was aber beide Filme gemeinsam haben, ist eine allzu offensichtlich an Indiana Jones angelehnte Abenteuer-Geschichte, und dazu noch einen Titelhelden - hier der leider viel zu früh verstorbene Christopher Connelly -, wie sie die ganzen Film über ihre Kapitänsmütze zur Schau stellen.
Angefangen bei dem anfänglichen Raubzug, wenn einem Eigeborenen-Stamm eine sagenumwobene Statue entwendet werden soll (Der rechte Arm… -
Decent jungle adventure that is never short of action, even if it’s not always particularly thrilling (several action scenes, including a car chase early on, have some out of place jaunty music that really doesn’t fit). There’s a few very obvious Indy lifts, some fun in a volcano and a small boy that can talk to snakes.
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PEYTON PLACE heartthrob Christopher Connelly worked almost exclusively in European features in the years just prior to his premature 1988 death from lung cancer. Cannon released this fun ripoff of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK that casts Connelly as Captain Yankee, a wisecracking rogue living in Malaysia in the 1930s. Making a decent living soaking tourists with staged adventures, Yankee and his partner Gin Fizz (Luciano Pigozzi) are blackmailed by U.S. government suit Warren (top-billed Lee Van Cleef) into guiding museum curators Lansky (Mike Monty) and Maria (Marina Costa) into the jungle to find the legendary Ruby of Gloom. Being that Maria is a real dish and Yankee a real man with two fists and a captain’s hat worn at…
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Summer of Trash 2023 #54: Watch an 80s action movie.
An homage…no that’s not right…a cheap knockoff to capitalize on the success of the Indiana Jones movies and Romancing the Stone, Jungle Raiders, is a pretty boilerplate jungle adventure flick about an American adventurer known as Captain Yankee (Christopher Connelly) in 1930s Malaysia. Captain Yankee normally takes rich Westerners on totally fake jungle adventures into lost tombs where they’re chased by “cannibals” (actually a tribe of locals the Captain Yankee is buddies with) and “escape death” by the skin of their teeth but early on he is coerced by Lee Van Cleef to take a couple of people from a museum into the jungle in search of a real treasure…
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Watchparty mit Filmsammlung
Im tiegmfen Dschungel suchen Kapitän Blaubeerschnapps und Teerlunge nach einem Schatz. Dabei wird viel geballert und ich dachte nicht das ich das sage, aber es war der beste Film an diesem Abend.
Das Finale hat dann noch Mal richtig aufgefahren mit Explosionen und einer trainierten Schlange.
Noice aber billig.
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*Watched on VHS*
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"They don't like you playing with their legends."
"It's only an adaptation."
The intro is a pretty fun send-up of a little known movie called Raiders of the Lost... erm, something or other.
But then the movie devolves into multiple side plots which never really gel together. Which sucks, because one of those characters is a still badass Lee Van Cleef, still sporting the wide-brimmed hat albeit white this time. In fact when we first meet him he's dressed head to toe in white, until later when he dons all black.
The dialogue doesn't really help matters either.
Sure, Rick Dalton (or is it…
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Another 80’s banger from master of miniatures Antonio Margheriti. Always had a soft spot for his Lewis Collins trilogy from the 80’s since renting them as a kid. This is an Indiana Jones rip off but full of energy and extra points for Van Cleef.
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Jungle Raiders has a great opening. riffing on Indiana Jones, it then takes a fun twist where we find all the adventure has been manufactured, and it's just a con to pull tourists and thrill-seekers in. After that it gets boring. Very boring.
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