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Supposedly "starring" Maria Montez in a unique but hardly revolutionary role an her own twin sister, Hollywood seems to have burned out another goodly batch technicolor film on the old and oh-so-familiar South Sea Isle set. To be complimentary, honorable mention should be given to the trained monkey and glassy-eyed snake for outstanding performances...
...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...
...Cinemactress Montez, in her strenuously unclad dual role, did not provide cheesecake enough, there is also Sabu in a pair of trig bathing trunks. A big boy now, and still growing, Sabu looks more like Elephant Boy than when he made the picture so called. Most conservatively dressed member of the cast is a chimpanzee...
Musicals which display a lot of beautiful, rounded female flesh are preferred by the troops. Favorite actresses: Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Maria Montez. In the case of these three, the plot and the vintage of the picture do not matter. Least favored of all: war movies...
...Maria Montez has looked more enticing in most of her other pictures and her acting has other pictures and her acting has nothing to recommend it. She plays the same old Lamour type--the island princess who marries the foreigner...