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...petrifying few minutes in which a Burmese priestess of fertility entices a reeling, slavering, divine king cobra from his cave, reverently kisses him three times on the brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 25, 1944 | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Monkey, whose name was not clearly pronounced even by lover-of-lore Sabu, turned in very neat job of errand running and needle-threading at the proper moments, while "King Cobra's" slenderizing away matched that of the "High-Priestess" herself, although it is difficult to say which inspired which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/21/1944 | See Source »

Complete with bevies of poorly rehearsed dancing maids, Wagnorian men-at-arms, and overgrown temple ruins, "Cobra Women" lacked none of the usual touches which characterize this sort of fare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/21/1944 | See Source »

...Cobra Woman (Universal) is quite a funny picture to have been made in all seriousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...plot: hefty Jon Hall is about to marry a lissome South Sea Islander (Maria Montez) when she is abducted by the Cobra People, a tribe of fanatic snake-worshippers, and taken to Cobra Island, whence few escape. Mr. Hall follows, learns that his fiancee's twin sister (Maria Montez) an evil High Priestess, has got the extras so hornswoggled by her snake dance that they march straight into the mouth of an active volcano. When Hall asks Maria's grandmother, the Island's powerless Queen, why her subjects act that way, he is told: "She appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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