Jorge Montoro Movies

With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western in Peru. In a remote mountain village in Peru, a Hollywood film company wraps up shooting a western and returns to California. Staying behind is a young stunt man, Kansas (Dennis Hopper). In the village, he takes up with the resident whore, Maria (Stella Garcia). At this point, the film flash-forwards to Kansas being crucified by the villagers. Back in the old time frame, the Peruvians decide that they want to make their own movie. Not having the necessary film equipment, but plenty of local raw material, the villagers construct the needed cameras, microphones, and sound recorders out of bamboo, and although the equipment is faked, the villagers substitute real, bloody violence for the make-believe violence of Hollywood. During this eruption of violence in the Peruvian village, the local priest (Tomas Milian) blames Kansas for the carnage. The priest decides that movies are the root of all worldly evil and convinces the villagers to seize Kansas. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

An Interpol agent is sent to Peru to capture a Nazi war criminal and an Israeli rebel in this tepid spy story. Stock footage of the Allied bombing of Germany is used to set up the story of the criminal's escape from justice to the safety of South America. The highlight of this film is the scene where Peruvian fisherman flock to the coast to cast their lines in the water. The film was originally shot in color but has suffered from technical difficulties in the black-and-white final print. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

A treasure hunter tries to transport a cache of gold belonging to a tribal queen from the Amazon jungle in this routine adventure. Customs of the local natives and the hero's life in the city are thrown in, but the main focus is his attempt to move the heavy gold from the dangerous and exotic jungle. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Originally intended as a 4-reel followup to the 1957 "docudrama" short subject The Amazon Trader, Manhunt in the Jungle was extended to feature length in hopes of better bookings. The story is based on the 1928 search for explorer Col. P. H. Fawcett, who disappeared somewhere in the Amazon. Robin Hughes stars as Cmdr. George M. Dyott, the man who organized the searching party for the missing Fawcett (James Wilson). The Warnercolor exterior shots of Peru and the Amazon regions are the highlights of the film. Less successful are the dramatic passages, which look like something out of a junior-high production of Stanley and Livingstone. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide