#current viewing

I'm watching a 1952 movie called Untamed Women. It's about a lost tribe of Amazons, descended from Druids, who do battle with Neanderthals on a volcanic island overrun by dinosaurs. ...No, really, that's the plot. (As often, the "dinosaurs" are portrayed by lizards with fins glued to their backs, in footage swiped from 1940's One Million B.C.) All I can think of is the brilliant bit in Tim Burton's Ed Wood where Ed improvises a movie plot around random snippets of stock footage. "We open on a series of explosions. No one knows what's causing them, but they're upsetting all the buffalo..."