River of Death (film)


River of Death is a 1989 American action film written and directed by Steve Carver and starring Michael Dudikoff. It is based on the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean.

Plot

In the nightmarish last days of the Third Reich, a psychotic Nazi scientist escapes to the impenetrable jungles of the Amazon. Years later, a mysterious incurable disease breaks out among the natives and adventurer John Hamilton is hired to lead investigators on a search for the cause. Braving bloodthirsty river pirates, hostile native tribes and headhunting cannibals, Hamilton, guides a group of explorers up the deadly Rio del Morte to the fabulous lost Inca city.

Cast

The Los Angeles Times said "this hapless movie's strategy seems to be to squeeze Alistair MacLean's story lugubriously through the send-up style of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and hope the jungle scenery and desultory hamminess of Pleasence and Herbert Lom will distract the audience from everything else. It doesn't work."