'Battle of the Amazons' is obviously derived from 'Seven Samurai', complete with a spaghetti western score. Talk being cheaper than action, the film sadly devotes far more time to the hapless farmers debating how to see the amazons off than to the amazons themselves doing what amazons do. (In the case of Lucretia Love as Eraglia, blonde sidekick to Genie Woods' Queen Antiope - both with their hair tied back in severe buns like ballerinas - this includes - in a rare sliver of wit - helping herself herself to a pretty young maiden while all the other amazons are heading back home with the village's young men to use as breeding stock.)
In readiness for a return engagement, four passing ruffians are persuaded to show the men how to handle swords; while in the final battle all the women suddenly show a skill with crossbows that would have ended the film several reels earlier had their aim been that good when the amazons had staged their original horseback raid on the village.
The biggest single disappointment of the film - as most of the previous reviewers on this board have already commented - is the long-awaited Battle of the Amazons itself; set at night and filmed mainly in long shot with the amazons all wearing masks to camouflage the fact that most of the combatants are stunt men rather than women.
In readiness for a return engagement, four passing ruffians are persuaded to show the men how to handle swords; while in the final battle all the women suddenly show a skill with crossbows that would have ended the film several reels earlier had their aim been that good when the amazons had staged their original horseback raid on the village.
The biggest single disappointment of the film - as most of the previous reviewers on this board have already commented - is the long-awaited Battle of the Amazons itself; set at night and filmed mainly in long shot with the amazons all wearing masks to camouflage the fact that most of the combatants are stunt men rather than women.