Our feature today is shot in Haiti using lots of Haitians in the cast. Haiti! Was it ever a nice place? By the looks of this film, it did have its beauty, at least in the 1950s, long before the Clinton Foundation got its claws into it and drained it of all its financial and natural resources. Before being raped by the Clintons, the island was a mess, but movies could be shot there. The real star of this film is bathing beauty Rosemarie Stack (she was married to Robert Stack for 47 years). She'll have a number of gratuitous swimsuit scenes and a lot of lip-locking with hunk co-star John Agar. The allure of her performance alone is reason to put this one on. Now let us look at 1954's "The Golden Mistress," directed by Abner Biberman.
Bill (Agar) is a loser treasure hunter trying not to have his boat repossessed. Him and Carl Dexter (Biberman) both seek the statue of The Golden Mistress. Carl is a veritable thief whereas Bill is a good guy. Carl steals the statue from a voodoo ceremony and has the wrath of voodoo gods upon him. Yep, voodoo will win. Now Carl's sultry daughter, Ann (Stack), hires Bill after springing him from prison. The two have met before and hate one another and Bill ended up throwing her overboard. Now Ann needs Bill to find the treasure of The Untamed. The Untamed? A lost, maybe extinct, Haitian tribe that keeps a golden treasure. The Untamed, if they do still exist, hold the key to enormous wealth for Ann and Bill.
Bill and Ann? Yep...you guessed it. Ann hates him until Bill grabs her, forces a kiss on her, gets slapped for his effort, then draws her in tight and gives her an uber-passionate kiss. Bill knows dames and has just reminded Ann she is a dame. Now Ann will love Bill. So, take-that woke America! Men used to be men and women used to be women. The duo consult a voodoo chieftain who Bill has earned favor with, Iznard (Andre Narcisse). Iznard knows about The Untamed but does not want to endanger Bill by letting him in on forbidden secrets. When Bill saves Iznard's son from a shark, the voodoo chief takes Bill on a marvelous journey to Haitian ruins that reveal the location of The Untamed. This is a voodoo no-no, and Iznard will pay for his generosity. Now Ann and Bill set sail to find The Untamed and the treasure that they seek.
Snakes, eels, octopi, barracuda, leeches, and crocodiles menace Bill and especially Ann throughout the duration of this film. Mrs. Stack is marvelous and so sultry in peril, in states of undress, all wet, and in swimsuits. Bill is a perfect hunk that reminds Ann of her true role...a woman. For a non-woke voodoo thriller filmed in Haiti, see "The Golden Mistress."
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