The Flame Barrier, Babe in the Jungle with Brutes, Savages, and a Monster

The babe we speak of is Miss New Jersey 1949...Kathleen Crowley. She's a doll.  In this one she will sweat a lot, be in peril from snakes, lizards, more snakes, and insects. She sweats well, and as you will see...she will also kiss well. We have a neat scifi/monster film from the late 50s that looks ahead to space exploration before we even got up there. Our feature today, set in the Yucatan jungle, and also featuring a chimpanzee, is 1958's "The Flame Barrier," directed by Paul Landres.

A space satellite is rocketed up into orbit. When it gets 200 miles up it collides with the flame barrier and blows up...or does it? Dr. Howard Dahlmann (Dan Gachman) believes it fell back to Earth and landed in the Mexican jungle. He sets off to find it and goes missing. Now his sultry wife, Carol (Crowley), comes to Mexico and hires Dave (Arthur Franz) and his drunk brother Matt (Robert Brown) to guide her into the dangerous jungle to find Howard. They both tell her that he could not have survived in that jungle, but Carol is insistent. Does she love her hubby? She doesn't know, which to me sounds like "NO!" The hunks bring her in and enlist local Indians. They carry the heavy stuff and get scared at weird phenomena that occurs. Carol is steadfast and Matt and Dave continue the trek with her.

Dave saves Carol form poisonous snakes and yells at her a lot.  She yells back.  The two sweat a lot and finally lock lips, swap spit, and grind themselves against the other. Passion ensues and Matt becomes the third wheel. There is a mission and Carol and the boys plough deeper into the jungle and find skeletons and Indians who have been attacked by some acid monster.  The poor souls burn alive. Then they find a chimp...in Mexico!  See, there was a chimp aboard the satellite which tells them the craft did land back on Earth and was not destroyed in space.  Then they find...well, its ungodly. It is also a threat to the very existence of this planet.  No...not aerosol products but something slimy and pulsating.

Will Dave and Carol forget that she is married and give each other passion like neither one of them has ever experienced?  What of Howard, and is he dead?  What is this thing secreted in the jungle that poses such a threat to all mankind?  Kathleen Crowley turns in a steamy performance and has some gratuitous scenes...at least for 1958.  She came in sixth in the Miss America Pageant when the babes in that contest were indeed babes.  Begs the question, who were, and where are the top five dames in that pageant?  See "The Flame Barrier" and enjoy a sweaty dame in mortal peril film.