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Savage Gold

Savage Gold

Through the green hell of trackless jungles, battling the bloodlust headhunters of the Amazon!

NR 1933 · 67 min · ★ 10.0 · Adventure

Based on a true story, this film tells of an expedition into the Amazon jungle to find an archaeologist who had vanished three years previously. They run into a tribe of warlike headhunters, who are determined to add the expedition members' heads to their collection (in the real story, the archaeologist was found to have been murdered by a tribe of Brazilian headhunters).

Directed by George M. Dyott · Written by Richard Mack

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