Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold

Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold


Starring:Laurene Landon, Ken Roberson, Cihangir Gaffari, Luis Lorenzo, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Sambrell, Eduardo Fajardo, Ramiro Oliveros, Suzannah Woodside, Concha Márquez Piquer, Antonio Tarruella, Daniel Martin, Mario De Abros, Román Ariznavarreta, Pablo García Ortega, Joaquín López (II), Juan Gomez Fernández, Juan G. Delgado, Alfonso María Delgado, Florencio Amarilla
Director: Matt Cimber
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Product Type: DVD
Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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 Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold
Starring: Laurene Landon , Ken Roberson , Cihangir Gaffari , Luis Lorenzo , and Claudia Gravy
Director: Matt Cimber
Manufacturer: Rhino Theatrical
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00008DDI7
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars What happens when..........2005-11-12

... you take a popular concept (in this case, Indiana Jones), fuse it with heaping helpings of spaghetti western trappings, and insert a Bo Derek-lookalike in the title role? Why, you get YELLOW HAIR AND THE FORTRESS OF GOLD, a lame, low-budget western from 1984 with a feeble grasp of any of the elements that made the Indy movies, or Italian westerns, popular in the first place.

Laurene Landon plays Yellow Hair, a young white woman who, as a young child, was adopted by an Apache tribe after she was abandoned (or something) by her birth parents. Yellow Hair grows up to be the toughest kick boxer of her tribe. We see her first as she's rather decisively beating up a young Apache brave. Then it's off to spring the Pecos Kid (Ken Roberson) from his cell in a Spanish fort commanded by an unfunnily effeminate Colonel Torres (Luis Lorenzo.) And then... but, heck, what does it matter? There's a missing gold nugget that has to be retrieved so Yellow Hair's adopted mother can die easy, a horn to be blown at the Canyon with No Echo, and a Man Who Knows to be visited.

If, as seems to be the case, YELLOW HAIR intended to repeat the breakneck pace and high humor of the Indiana Jones franchise, it fails miserably. True, the film moves from one adventure to the next, but there the similarities end. The pacing is leaden, the jokes feeble, and someone forgot to buckle the swash. There are a couple of interesting scenes - Yellow Hair and Pecos Kid being chased while driving a stagecoach comes to mind - but for the most part it's just an embarrassing copy of a popular formula.

3 out of 5 stars B (or C) Movie Western.......2003-09-19

Pretty standard movie for the era, involving brutal tortures of gold hunters in the opening scenes, the twisted, comical Spanish/Mexican general as the evil villian, "noble" savages, a lost inca temple, humor, a tough (and very plain) leading lady, an easy-going western hero, this is a Western adventure. Bar fights, stage coach chases, running out of ammo, snakes in tumble weeds hured at the enemy, neither nudity nor sex - wasn't anything new for westerns. Acting was sometimes cheesy, film was not always perfect but was okay, it starts as if it's part of a cliffhanger series ("Last time our hero...") and ends as one. Hard core western fans might want to give it a try and people wih simple tastes. I was tempted to give it 2 stars - it's pretty vanilla - but I don't watch movies I don't think I'll like.

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