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A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.A group of adventurers head to a primitive tribe in Africa to find a treasure of diamonds and a beautiful white girl who was lost years ago and was made the tribe's goddess.
Antonio Mayans
- Fred Pereira
- (as Robert Foster)
Mari Carmen Nieto
- Lita
- (as Ana Stern)
Daniel White
- Mr. De Winter
- (as Dan Villers)
Yolanda Mobita
- Girl
- (as Yolanda Mubita)
- Directors
- Jesús Franco(english version)
- Olivier Mathot(uncredited)
- Writer
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- TriviaKatja Bienert said playing in this film was quite an act, cause she is far away from being sportive. "Mostly I was frightened acting like being a female Tarzan, so I was thankful that he added some scenes where I looked seductive or was fighting with my hunters - anything, but my feet on the ground. We shot on the Canary Islands in a natural resort and I enjoyed being in the nature, having a comfortable hotel nearby. Mostly we shot during the summer-holidays, cause Jess always respected me being a schoolgirl," Bienert recalled.
- GoofsTwo crew members are seen hiding behind some rocks when Fred walks off just before Lita goes swimming.
- Alternate versionsThe export version, credited to Cole Polly, has a few additional scenes shot by Olivier Mathot.
- ConnectionsReferences Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
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If You're Expecting Diamonds, Forget It - It's The Coal Of Kilimandjaro For You! 1-2-Miss
Greetings And Salutations, and welcome to my review of Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro; here's the breakdown of my ratings:
Story: 0.50 Direction: 0.50 Pace: 0.25 Acting: 0.50 Enjoyment: 0.50
TOTAL: 2.25 out of 10.00
I don't know why I keep watching these Jess Franco flicks; they get progressively worse, but onward I go.
I have to give Franco some credit for the story because the concept is a damned good one. However, it stalls badly in its maturity into a full-grown tale, which leaves the audience with a stunted and deformed monstrosity of a mess. What Diamonds required was beefy and extravagant characters, not the insipid individuals that populate most scenes. These guys and gals are so feeble you wonder how they've survived so long, especially in the jungle. Another ingredient that needed plumping up was the story's junctures of undertaking - The scenes that drive the narrative and give the viewers their understanding of the story. Most of these are bland, and the rest are pure folderol to fill the time. But when it comes to codswallop wait until the dialogue starts.
As for the direction, I can see from IMDb that, along with Jess Franco, Olivier Mathot is listed as uncredited. If I were Mathot or his family, I'd be asking IMDb to remove my name from its listings. Diamonds is not a film to be proud of or to have detailed on your resume. The cinematography is some of the worst I've seen, and the cutting room boys didn't do it any favours with their poor trimming. Some scenes recur twice or thrice. It's substandard and annoying as hell. But don't worry, there are a few unintentionally droll situations along the way. One of the funniest is the plane crash at the film's start. When the plane is in the air, it's plain white. After the crash, the aircraft painters rush out and slap some colour on the wreck before the natives turn up to investigate the strange smell of white spirit. When the inquisitive tribe arrive, they step out of the corn. Yep, it looks like there's a lot of corn in those jungles of Kilimandjaro. In truth, it's as though the casting director rounded up the nearest black guys (forget about getting actors - that was too much like hard work), and daub them with some face paint, then shove them out of the closest farmer's cornfield. The look on their faces is priceless. Some look bored, others appear to be considering why they accepted the job, and one genuinely seems to be trying to act. He's at the back, to the right. I was giggling like a loon at this point. Sadly, there aren't enough of these inadvertent titters to promote the film to a "good" bad b-movie status.
The actors and actresses are abysmal in their portrayals of the near-nonexistent characters, except for Aline Mess. She stands out like a sore and throbbing thumb as the devious and vicious Noba. She would have been the tribal Queen had the "White Gods" not crashed in her cornfields - sorry, jungle! The reason she stands out is down to one thing. The lady has talent. And though her name is Mess, she's the freshest thing about the whole production. Another random guffaw comes in the shape, and particularly the sound of, Daniel White as Mr De Winter. He's dressed in his Scottish garb and parleys in the worst accent I've ever heard - a mix of Scottish, Irish, and something unidentifiable.
All in all, Diamonds Of Killimandjaro is a travesty of a mess, which, had a decent writer and director been engaged, could have been one of the better Jungle Pictures. As it stands, I cannot recommend the movie in the slightest. It's one of which to steer well clear. In fact, if a friend recommends this movie to you, delete and block their number on your phone, drop them off the Christmas card list, unpoke and unfriend them, and consider moving... I hear Siberia is nice.
Drop that ear, and come out of that cornfield, it's time to check out my Dramatisation Of Life and The Game Is Afoot lists to see where I ranked Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro.
Take Care & Stay Well.
Story: 0.50 Direction: 0.50 Pace: 0.25 Acting: 0.50 Enjoyment: 0.50
TOTAL: 2.25 out of 10.00
I don't know why I keep watching these Jess Franco flicks; they get progressively worse, but onward I go.
I have to give Franco some credit for the story because the concept is a damned good one. However, it stalls badly in its maturity into a full-grown tale, which leaves the audience with a stunted and deformed monstrosity of a mess. What Diamonds required was beefy and extravagant characters, not the insipid individuals that populate most scenes. These guys and gals are so feeble you wonder how they've survived so long, especially in the jungle. Another ingredient that needed plumping up was the story's junctures of undertaking - The scenes that drive the narrative and give the viewers their understanding of the story. Most of these are bland, and the rest are pure folderol to fill the time. But when it comes to codswallop wait until the dialogue starts.
As for the direction, I can see from IMDb that, along with Jess Franco, Olivier Mathot is listed as uncredited. If I were Mathot or his family, I'd be asking IMDb to remove my name from its listings. Diamonds is not a film to be proud of or to have detailed on your resume. The cinematography is some of the worst I've seen, and the cutting room boys didn't do it any favours with their poor trimming. Some scenes recur twice or thrice. It's substandard and annoying as hell. But don't worry, there are a few unintentionally droll situations along the way. One of the funniest is the plane crash at the film's start. When the plane is in the air, it's plain white. After the crash, the aircraft painters rush out and slap some colour on the wreck before the natives turn up to investigate the strange smell of white spirit. When the inquisitive tribe arrive, they step out of the corn. Yep, it looks like there's a lot of corn in those jungles of Kilimandjaro. In truth, it's as though the casting director rounded up the nearest black guys (forget about getting actors - that was too much like hard work), and daub them with some face paint, then shove them out of the closest farmer's cornfield. The look on their faces is priceless. Some look bored, others appear to be considering why they accepted the job, and one genuinely seems to be trying to act. He's at the back, to the right. I was giggling like a loon at this point. Sadly, there aren't enough of these inadvertent titters to promote the film to a "good" bad b-movie status.
The actors and actresses are abysmal in their portrayals of the near-nonexistent characters, except for Aline Mess. She stands out like a sore and throbbing thumb as the devious and vicious Noba. She would have been the tribal Queen had the "White Gods" not crashed in her cornfields - sorry, jungle! The reason she stands out is down to one thing. The lady has talent. And though her name is Mess, she's the freshest thing about the whole production. Another random guffaw comes in the shape, and particularly the sound of, Daniel White as Mr De Winter. He's dressed in his Scottish garb and parleys in the worst accent I've ever heard - a mix of Scottish, Irish, and something unidentifiable.
All in all, Diamonds Of Killimandjaro is a travesty of a mess, which, had a decent writer and director been engaged, could have been one of the better Jungle Pictures. As it stands, I cannot recommend the movie in the slightest. It's one of which to steer well clear. In fact, if a friend recommends this movie to you, delete and block their number on your phone, drop them off the Christmas card list, unpoke and unfriend them, and consider moving... I hear Siberia is nice.
Drop that ear, and come out of that cornfield, it's time to check out my Dramatisation Of Life and The Game Is Afoot lists to see where I ranked Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro.
Take Care & Stay Well.
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