An American working on a ranch in the Amazon comes up against a gang of Brazilian bandits.An American working on a ranch in the Amazon comes up against a gang of Brazilian bandits.An American working on a ranch in the Amazon comes up against a gang of Brazilian bandits.
Jerado Decordovier
- Vaquero
- (uncredited)
Bobby Diamond
- Stevie Dent
- (uncredited)
Joe Dominguez
- Spanish Tannery Man
- (uncredited)
Peter Ford
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Al Haskell
- Barbossa
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSara Montiel was originally cast in the role of Teresa and filmed some sequences in Brazil's Matto Grosso jungle. There are stills where she is seen handling a big snake, possibly an anaconda, along with Glenn Ford, Cesar Romero and others in the cast. In her 2000 autobiography, Sara relates how the production ran out of money and everybody was sent back to Hollywood with canceled contracts. Months later, she was called to resume filming but by then she had signed with Warner Bros. and could not finish the film. She was replaced by Abbe Lane and her scenes were re-shot.
- GoofsThe language of Brazil is Portuguese, yet every "native" in this movie either speaks Spanish or a terrible mix of the two.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Stevie: Pa, how far is Brazil?
Barney Dent: That's a long way away, Stevie - clear across the world.
Daughter: Is it as far as Amarillo?
Barney Dent: Yeah, farther!
Stevie: Why are our bulls going to Brazil?
Barney Dent: Because we sold 'em to a rancher down there.
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I won't write 4 paragraphs about the plot. I wanted to see this movie again from another perspective. In the 50s to 1966 when Eric Fleming was killed in Peru filming an adventure movie, studios did some live filming on field locations because the tourist industry, airlines, people with vacation money wanted to see Panama, Brazil, Morocco etc. I like to watch on location movies with Ford and other actors. This one is good for the location filming but shallow. Glenn Ford displays again his excellent horsemanship. he was considered of the top 3 riders of that time. 2 high jumps and 3 running mounts. I can watch a whole movie of him riding. This is 1 movie where its not about him in a romance, so his acting has more character. For as much as this story could have contained, it was spread out evenly. Glenn was great, movie is good.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,250,000
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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