800 Leagues Down The Amazon

Exotic locations lend 800 LEAGUES DOWN THE AMAZON an unearned gloss, making the low-budget, underpopulated production look as though it cost far more than it actually did, but it's done in by wooden performances and the dated source material.

Spunky Minha (Daphne Zuniga)--whose father, Juan Garral (Barry Bostwick), owns a prosperous hemp plantation in the middle of the jungle--and Dr. Monoel Valdez (Tom Verica) agree to be married. The wedding is to take place down river, in Brazil, so that Manuel's ailing mother can attend. Juan has a terrible secret: years earlier, he was falsely convicted of a crime in Brazil and escaped before he was to be executed. He cha...