Comments on: Identify this 80s movie featuring Indy-type blond heroine and... Aztecs?

Question: Identify this 80s movie featuring Indy-type blond heroine and... Aztecs?

gentle — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:30:57 -0800

Back in the 1980s, I remember watching a bizarre sort of Indiana Jones-copycat treasure-hunting/western movie. It featured a young, blond Daryl Hannah lookalike and possibly Aztecs who liked to dip humans head-first in liquid gold before decapitating them. It was fairly violent stuff, and one scene had the characters being horrified when one of their comrades returned headless on a horse. The whole thing must have been somewhat tongue-in-cheek, however, because it ended with a humorous 70s-style montage that set up a (presumably fake) sequel with the blond girl as a butt-kicking Indy-type heroine. I am pretty sure it was made in the 80s, and I remember the dialogue as being English, but I could be wrong; all I know is that Bud Spencer and Terence Hill weren't in it. Ring any bells?

By: GeekAnimator

GeekAnimator — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:37:08 -0800

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold?

By: rokabiri

rokabiri — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:56:15 -0800

I was also thinking Allan Quatermain. Both Indiana Jones and Quatermain are based on Sir Henry Rider Haggard's adventure stories featuring the fictional Allan Quatermain character.

By: remlapm

remlapm — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:57:06 -0800

Sheena?

By: pwb503

pwb503 — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:53:53 -0800

King Solomon's Mines?

By: johngoren

johngoren — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:02:35 -0800

Sounds like something from Cannon Films, which produced a number of Indy ripoffs including Treasure of the Four Crowns.

By: gentle

gentle — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:33:48 -0800

Hm. The only part of Lost City of Gold? that sounds similar is the "dipping people in gold" part and the fact that Sharon Stone is blond. But nothing in the trailer looks familiar. Does it feature anyone being decapitated?

It's definitely not Sheena or Treasure of the Four Crowns.

By: Z303

Z303 — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:36:04 -0800

Jane and the Lost City?

By: gentle

gentle — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:23:19 -0800

Sadly, no. And I just watched a bit of Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, and it's not that one either.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:53:59 -0800

Firewalker or The Laughing Dead? The Laughing Dead has Aztecs, gold, decapitations, and a leading lady (Wendy Webb) that reaaaaaalllly looks like Darryl Hannah. She's a singer now.

By: gentle

gentle — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:18:17 -0800

Thanks, but I don't think so. I saw Firewalker as a kid, and it's the right genre, but that's not the one; and The Laughing Dead looks like a supernatural splatter movie.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:48:53 -0800

The Further Adventures of Tennesse Buck and The Fantastic World of DC Collins are listed on imdb as Indian Jones Spoofs from the 80s. They both sound absolutely horrible, but the reviews are amusing.

By: gentilknight

gentilknight — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:52:42 -0800

Romancing the Stone or Jewel of the Nile? The montage sounds like one of Kathleen Turner's novel scenes.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:57:16 -0800

Nope -- the "novel scene" in Romancing the Stone was about a cowboy resucing a Mexican peasant girl, and the Jewel Of the Nile one took place on a pirate ship.

....Wait, why do I know that?

By: parmanparman

parmanparman — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:11:23 -0800

I believe in the movie the OP is looking for, at the end of the film they kill someone and have to escape an Inca pyramid, but before they do the heroine sprinkles herbs on a dead warrior and cremates his body.

By: gentle

gentle — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:29:00 -0800

It's not The Further Adventures of Tennesse Buck, The Fantastic World of DC Collins, Romancing the Stone or Jewel of the Nile.

From what I remember the main characters were running around in a desert-like mountain terrain. There are no junges that I remember, so Mexico or Peru or Africa sounds appropriate. So yeah, it could be have been an Incan pyramid, parmanparman.

At one point one of the main characters is captured by the bad guys (natives, presumably), hung upside-down and his head is slowly lowered into a vat of what I took to be molten gold. And I think that when he's pulled up again, his head is missing.

At the end, the heroine has to fight a bunch of people in what's either a small village or a farm or some sort of corral, then takes off on horseback. This is where the montage happens, with supposed outtakes from the next movie.

That's an unusual way to end a film, so it could mean that what I saw was a TV episode or pilot, but at the time it seemed like a comic device.