There's only one major star in this remake of "Yellow Dust", a western about the lust for gold, and it has been transferred to the African wilderness without any wild animals, but some natives who pop in out of the blue to check in on their prospector friend Vincent Price and perform a little dance just for the heck of it. Robert Gunner ain't no Gregory Peck, and Diana Ivarson certainly ain't no Anne Baxter, but thanks to price and some good action, this film is actually pretty entertaining even if it's a pale comparison to the original. Price and Iverson are hiding gold, and Gunner and his men want to find it although Gunner promises to share it with the rightful owners if they do even though Iverson is a pretty good shot and take them all out if she so intended to.
There's lots of action among the digging for gold which includes a cave in which could have had a more dramatic twist than it does, but when the natives pop into suddenly do a dance in their feathery outfits, the film somehow becomes a bit campy, having been rather ordinary beforehand. Gunner is an okay young leading man, but it's easy to see why he's forgotten, and Iverson suffers from being photographed rather badly, so every time the men talk about how attractive she is, it becomes sort of a standing joke because the camera is not flattering to her at all. When one of the older characters suddenly breaks into a song about not having found love while chasing gold, it just becomes weird. Price of course makes every moment that he's on screen count, giving it a lively over the top performance that indicates that he was having a blast making it. This easily could have been released directly to television as it doesn't really seem very cinematic enough for a huge screen release, one of many 20th Century Fox classics to be remade in the 1960's rather unremarkably.
There's lots of action among the digging for gold which includes a cave in which could have had a more dramatic twist than it does, but when the natives pop into suddenly do a dance in their feathery outfits, the film somehow becomes a bit campy, having been rather ordinary beforehand. Gunner is an okay young leading man, but it's easy to see why he's forgotten, and Iverson suffers from being photographed rather badly, so every time the men talk about how attractive she is, it becomes sort of a standing joke because the camera is not flattering to her at all. When one of the older characters suddenly breaks into a song about not having found love while chasing gold, it just becomes weird. Price of course makes every moment that he's on screen count, giving it a lively over the top performance that indicates that he was having a blast making it. This easily could have been released directly to television as it doesn't really seem very cinematic enough for a huge screen release, one of many 20th Century Fox classics to be remade in the 1960's rather unremarkably.