{"id":36558,"date":"2024-08-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36558"},"modified":"2024-08-24T21:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T01:13:32","slug":"curucu-beast-of-the-amazon-1956-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36558","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Curucu, Beast of the Amazon&#8221; (1956) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082724zview_curucu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Curt Siodmak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Curt Siodmak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Bromfield, Beverly Garland<\/strong><strong>, Larri Thomas, Ray Barlow, Sue Bernard,<\/strong> <strong>Stuart Lancaster, John Furlong<\/strong> (voice) and<strong> Paul Trinka.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Actually filmed in the Amazon Jungle in spectacular Eastman Color!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rock Dean (Bromfield) and Dr. Andrea Romar (Garland) are on an expedition deep into the jungles of the Amazon.\u00a0 Dean hopes to discover a legendary beast.\u00a0 Dr. Romar wants to get samples of a drug used by natives to shrink heads.\u00a0 She believes the drug could be used to reduce cancerous tissue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Dean and Dr. Romar venture into areas never seen by white men, they must be prepared for wild animals, head hunters and Curucu, Beast of the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curt Siodmak who wrote and directed <em>Curucu, Beast of the Amazon\u00a0<\/em>was a novelist (DONOVAN&#8217;S BRAIN; THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS; FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN); screenwriter (<em>The Wolfman; Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman; Tarzan&#8217;s Magic Fountain<\/em>) and director (<em>Bride of the Gorilla; Love Slaves of the Amazon; The Magnetic Monster<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Curucu, Beast of the Amazon\u00a0<\/em>was shot on location in the Amazon River in Brazil.\u00a0 Siodmak shot so much footage that he couldn&#8217;t use, he brought back some of the actors.\u00a0 He created a new screenplay,<em> Love Slaves of the Amazons<\/em> and used the leftover footage in the new film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Curucu, Beast of the Amazon\u00a0<\/em>uses quite a bit of what feels like stock footage of wild animals.\u00a0 Except for the final shot, the movie is very run of the mill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 1 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_f.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082724zview_curucu2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) Director: Curt Siodmak Screenplay: \u00a0Curt Siodmak Stars: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Larri Thomas, Ray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36559,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions\/36559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}