Cobra Woman (Blu-ray)
STRANGE LOVES, UNBELIEVABLE ADVENTURES in the SOUTH SEAS!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 11 minutes
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 7, 2020
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maria Montez, Jon Hall & Sabu | |
Performer: | Edgar Barrier, Mary Nash, Samuel S. Hinds, Moroni Olsen & Lon Chaney, Jr. | |
Directed by | Robert Siodmak | |
Screenplay by | Gene Lewis & Richard Brooks | |
Composition by | Edward Ward | |
Art Direction by | Alexander Golitzen & John B. Goodman | |
Produced by | George Waggner | |
Director of Photography: | W. Howard Greene & George Robinson |
Entertainment Reviews:
A fantastic Tecnicolor tale once again gives us the opportunity to admire María Montez. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Rating: B --
Decades later, it's easy to see why this Maria Montez exotic adventure became a cult item and a campy picture for gay and straight viewers.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Although not a musical, Cobra Woman functions as one, boasting Naja's orgiastic undulating cobra dance and the mellifluous ring of Montez's thickly accented line delivery.
Village Voice
A deliciously detestable Hollywood relic; a bad movie that knows how to be good.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: B --
A fun-filled camp fantasy melodrama about cobra worshippers on an exotic secret tropical island.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Adventure filled with spectacle and brilliant color.
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Classic Film and Television
Product Description:
On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South Sea island to the mysterious, forbidden place of her birth, Cobra Island. Ramu follows and, with help from his young-but-not-too-bright friend Kado (Sabu) and their chimp Coco, manages to land on the island and avoid capture, which would mean death. It turns out that Tollea is the rightful high priestess of Cobra Island, the first born of two twin daughters of the earlier priestess. Tollea was not immune to the venom of the king cobra, however, so she was spirited away from the island as an infant to avoid her unnecessary death. Now her grandmother, the Queen (Mary Nash), has secured her return. Tollea's twin sister, Naja (also played by Montez), has turned cruel, greedy, and ambitious, and is killing, torturing, and tormenting her people and perverting their religion; Naja must be deposed, hopefully before the volcano on the far side of the island registers too loud an objection to her blasphemies. But Naja -- who is wanton enough to want Ramu for her own pleasure -- and her confederate, the evil, ambitious Martok (Edgar Barrier), don't plan on leaving quietly.
Meanwhile, Ramu has to keep himself and Kado alive and decide if he's willing to give up the woman that he loves so that she can save her people; Tollea must choose between love and duty, fate and her birthright. One of the most ridiculously and unselfconsciously campy costume adventure movies of its era, COBRA WOMAN was apparently a lot of fun to work on and a relief from the reality of the Second World War for audiences in 1944. The script, co-authored by Richard Brooks a long time before he wrote THE BRICK FOXHOLE, much less directed BLACKBOARD JUNGLE or made IN COLD BLOOD or LORD JIM, is incredibly sloppy, the mix of harem dancers and ridiculous prop snakes is bizarre, and some of the worst choreography of its era doesn't help -- and yet it all hangs together, somehow, as entertainment. Director Robert Siodmak reportedly liked it, and as a refugee from the Nazis, working on it still beat the fate he'd fled in Germany. The movie is also alleged to be the primary inspiration for Jack Smith's FLAMING CREATURES -- which starred female impersonator Mario Montez -- and looking at it in the 21st century, one wonders if it was ever seen by Edward D. Wood Jr.; not only does the production sort of anticipate (albeit on a much higher level and budget) his work in the adventure genre, but the script seems to contain the essence of inept moments that he would elevate to an art of sorts. And one can just imagine Wood, as a young marine recruit, watching COBRA WOMAN eagerly and "learning" all the wrong lessons from its writing and production. But, like the best of Wood's movies -- only more so -- COBRA WOMAN is still great fun of the "guilty pleasure" sort.
Meanwhile, Ramu has to keep himself and Kado alive and decide if he's willing to give up the woman that he loves so that she can save her people; Tollea must choose between love and duty, fate and her birthright. One of the most ridiculously and unselfconsciously campy costume adventure movies of its era, COBRA WOMAN was apparently a lot of fun to work on and a relief from the reality of the Second World War for audiences in 1944. The script, co-authored by Richard Brooks a long time before he wrote THE BRICK FOXHOLE, much less directed BLACKBOARD JUNGLE or made IN COLD BLOOD or LORD JIM, is incredibly sloppy, the mix of harem dancers and ridiculous prop snakes is bizarre, and some of the worst choreography of its era doesn't help -- and yet it all hangs together, somehow, as entertainment. Director Robert Siodmak reportedly liked it, and as a refugee from the Nazis, working on it still beat the fate he'd fled in Germany. The movie is also alleged to be the primary inspiration for Jack Smith's FLAMING CREATURES -- which starred female impersonator Mario Montez -- and looking at it in the 21st century, one wonders if it was ever seen by Edward D. Wood Jr.; not only does the production sort of anticipate (albeit on a much higher level and budget) his work in the adventure genre, but the script seems to contain the essence of inept moments that he would elevate to an art of sorts. And one can just imagine Wood, as a young marine recruit, watching COBRA WOMAN eagerly and "learning" all the wrong lessons from its writing and production. But, like the best of Wood's movies -- only more so -- COBRA WOMAN is still great fun of the "guilty pleasure" sort.
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