This particularly odd Buchanan concoction opens with some street punks with guns holding-up a NYC hospital for drugs. Jenny Neumann is a pregnant patient who suffers a miscarriage as a result.
One guy mentions that his rifle is a REMINGTON 308! A few times.
MISTRESS OF THE APES is one of many gender-twist versions of TARZAN that have been made over the years. In the hands of writer/director Larry Buchanan, this one's a cheap and entirely lamentable affair, with the sole thing going for it that it was filmed in Kenya.
Susan (Jenny Neumann) takes off to the Congo to find her missing husband Earl. She joins with David (Walt Robin) a hunter, and an apparently old boyfriend and his wife Laura (Barbara Leigh).
I was hoping that Mistress of the Apes would be an enjoyable piece of jungle sexploitation, with gorgeous blonde lead Jenny Neumann being the female equivalent of Tarzan, swinging through the trees in nothing but a loincloth; this is most definitely not the case.Neumann plays Susan Jamison, wife of a famous anthropologist, who travels to the Congo region to try and find her missing husband, unaware that he has been murdered by poachers.
I agree with the other reviewers that if you're looking for a sex film here, you're going to be pretty disappointed. The lead Jenny Neumann has some brief nude scenes, but Barbara Leigh (suprisingly) and British cheesecake actress Suzy Mandel (shockingly) do not.
One of bad film master Larry Buchanan's best. Features a stupid yet potent mix of sex, bad science, fake jungle sets, horrible makeup, and incredible music ("She used her charms to tame the wild, she thought of everything except what to name the child").
I don't know about you, but I sat through a good thirty minutes of this movie without a complaint. Why?
Okay, forget Ed Wood, Jess Franco or even Al Adamson. If you are interested in investigating quirky filmmakers, try Larry Buchanan.
