| Eve | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Jeremy Summers |
| Screenplay by | Peter Welbeck |
| Produced by | Harry Alan Towers |
| Starring | Robert Walker Fred Clark Herbert Lom Christopher Lee Celeste Yarnall |
| Cinematography | Manuel Merino |
| Edited by | Alan Morrison |
| Music by | Malcolm Lockyer |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK) Commonwealth United Corporation (US) |
Release date | July 1968 (New Orleans) (USA) (premiere) |
Running time | 94 min. |
| Country | Spain / UK / Liechtenstein / USA |
| Language | English |
Eve is a 1968 thriller film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Robert Walker, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee and introducing Celeste Yarnall as Eve. When the director quit midway through filming, Spanish horror film director Jesus Franco was brought in to finish the job.[1] The film was a co-production between Britain, Spain, Liechtenstein and the United States, and location scenes were filmed in Brazil.[2] It was also released as Eva en la Selva, The Face of Eve (in the UK), Eve in the Jungle, or Diana, Daughter of the Wilderness.[3] The fur bikini worn by Celeste Yarnall was altered from that worn by Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. (1966).[4]
Plot
An explorer looking for a priceless missing Inca treasure in the Amazon jungle runs across a bikini clad and barefoot young woman named Eve,[5] who is worshipped as a goddess by jungle natives. Eve is also being pursued by a showman who wants her for his freak show; by the natives who now want to kill her for helping a white man; and by an explorer, Eve's grandfather, who wants to silence her.[6]
Cast
- Robert Walker as Mike Yates
- Fred Clark as John Burke
- Herbert Lom as Diego
- Christopher Lee as Colonel Stuart
- Celeste Yarnall as Eve
- Rosenda Monteros as Conchita
- Maria Rohm as Anna
- Jose Ma Caffarel as José
- Ricardo Diaz as Bruno
Song credits
Lyric by Hal Shaper
Sung by Jago Simms
End credits
Filmed on location
in Spain and Brazil
Copyright 1968 Udastex Films Limited
Critical reception
TV Guide called it a "very poorly done story of a Tarzaness" ;[6] while Dave Sindelar wrote in Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, "it's a dull affair, especially during the long middle section where the hero returns to civilization, and any interest it does generate is more due to the presence of several familiar faces (Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, Fred Clark) than anything that actually happens. One fun thing to do in the movie is to keep track of how many characters die as a result of their own monumental stupidity; I count at least three."[7]
See also
References
- ↑ Mann, Dave (20 October 2014). Harry Alan Towers. ISBN 9780786479825.
- ↑ "Eve (1968) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ↑ Institute, American Film (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the ... - Google Books. ISBN 9780520209701.
- ↑ Louis Paul, Tales from the Cult Film Trenches, p. 310, McFarland, 2007, ISBN 0786429941
- ↑ "The Face of Eve". BFI. Archived from the original on 17 January 2009.
- 1 2 "Eve". TV Guide.
- ↑ Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings. "Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings - EVE (1968)". scifilm.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
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