Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro 1983 A French and Spanish Production, written and directed by Jesús Franco. Oliver Mathot gets an uncredited directing credit according to the IMDb. It's the 3rd of the films in the Jungle Girls Triple Feature DVD set. Each movie gets it's own DVD, some have minor extras. This entry from the film's IMDb Trivia Page explains about Mathot's uncredited work and the two versions of the film.
The original film version of Diamonds Of Kilimandjaro (1983) ran at 83 minutes. However, the French censors did not allow the film to air in France. To bypass the censors, the French Production company Eurociné deleting several scenes and sent Oliver Mathot to shoot different footage with the same actors (and also used new actors to add a few characters). The film was then repackaged as "Les Diamants du Kilimanjaro" and ran 95 minutes long. This film was then exported around the world, but was still never shown in France. The original Spanish version (83 minutes) is only available in Spain.
The version on the DVD is the 95 minute version. I can't even imagine wanting to search out the Spanish version.
The story is pretty basic, family lands in the jungle, the old man gets made head of the tribe and the young daughter grows up to run about topless. To be fair the 2 other women in the tiny tribe are topless also. In fact, that's the whole idea for the movie, hot jungle, cute girls, no tops, add some backstabbing family drama to pad it out.
It's just done so poorly, Mathot improves nothing of Franco's already poorly made film. Easily the worst of the trio of films in the set. Probably won't bother with it again. I'll watch a Tarzan film again, those are easily more fun and much more entertaining.
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