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Billy Wilder, who wrote and directed Some Like It Hot, is an ingenious man: he plays on erotic fantasies for every taste, manipulating all the tested devices of the "Amazon" movies. Imagine being a jazz musician (Jack Lemmon) who has to escape a gang of Chicago bootleggers because you inadvertantly witnessed the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Imagine that your only traveling to Florida. Finally, picture yourself on a train way out is to disguise yourself and join an all-girls band with nothing but girls, all of them in flimsy negligees, one of them Marilyn Monroe, crawling all over...
...Every meeting of preachers brings word of another minister's wife who is on the brink of a mental and emotional collapse," reports an article in the Texas religious weekly, The Baptist Standard. Among the reasons: "The stresses and strains are enough to stagger an Amazon . . . Most ministers' wives have never heard a divine call, they have simply married men who have." They lead an "inexorable fishbowl existence," in which they are expected to be leaders and models in all fields. "Summarily stated, being a preacher's wife is the hardest of Kingdom positions...
Jungle Cat. The music is annoying and the narration not especially informative but superb wildlife photography makes this film by Walt Disney about jaguars in the Amazon rain forest a pleasure...
...travel by starting off his story with a group of gem and gold hunters bickering over a rich find. One shoots up the others and goes off with the prize; two survivors spend the rest of the film chasing him. Following his plot 1,000 miles up the Amazon, he stayed open to suggestions from real life. Seeing a woman suspected of theft fleeing through a market crowd, he whipped out his camera, shot the scene, and used it to introduce one of the film's heroines. During ten days on the Belem-Bracanga railroad, the company lost some...
...virtually blacked out the city for three weeks, provoked citizens' wrath when Camus hired a nightclub and filled it up with prostitutes, the only extras he could find who were willing to work all night. Camus carried luggage, dug ditches, designed and built nearly every set but the Amazon delta and the Mato Grosso, applied makeup, shifted props, arranged lights, hammered nails, served food. "He's very easy to work with," said one actor, "provided you let him dominate you completely...