tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post809491918251548347..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Overlooked Movies -- Secret of the Incasmybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-10433751245823763352016-04-23T09:02:02.338-05:002016-04-23T09:02:02.338-05:00My brother went to Peru the year before I did, and...My brother went to Peru the year before I did, and he walked the Inca trail. I took the train.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-73030489097788974322016-04-23T08:57:19.179-05:002016-04-23T08:57:19.179-05:00Hi Bill.
I like the fact that you saw SECRET OF T...Hi Bill.<br /><br />I like the fact that you saw SECRET OF THE INCAS as a child and the scenic locations inspired you to travel to Peru and see Cuzco and Machu Picchu. I saw the movie when I was ten years old in 1963 at my local flea pit and the movie blew my mind. 40 years later I trekked to Machu Picchu, because of the movies great influence on me. I run a website on SECRET OF THE INCAS and I now know of eleven people that walked the Inca Trail, just because they saw this old Heston flick.James Byrnehttp://www.secretoftheincas.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-29607589103798120782016-01-05T12:18:18.138-06:002016-01-05T12:18:18.138-06:00I've read a couple of the Morocco Jones books....I've read a couple of the Morocco Jones books. Maybe the title added something, but I don't think much else did.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-58273746382674759772016-01-05T12:09:31.979-06:002016-01-05T12:09:31.979-06:00Nope. I *like* Yma Sumac--albeit in smallish, inf...Nope. I *like* Yma Sumac--albeit in smallish, infrequent doses; my dad had an album of her 78s from the early '50s, and I have one LP and a CD. The percussion is what makes them so listenable (for me). Whereas I wouldn't listen to Britney Spears at gunpoint.<br /><br />The movie was OK, but about a tenth as active as it should have been; Spielberg's debt to it is glaringly obvious. There's also a series of '50s paperbacks--only 2 or 3 titles, I think--about an adventurer known as Morocco Jones, who may've added something to the stew.Mike Stammnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-77494658939745568892016-01-05T10:49:22.247-06:002016-01-05T10:49:22.247-06:00Kind of makes one long for something by Britney Sp...Kind of makes one long for something by Britney Spears, right?mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-10269721427303553532016-01-05T10:16:29.590-06:002016-01-05T10:16:29.590-06:00Poor Yma Sumac and her teeth-grating singing! Bac...Poor Yma Sumac and her teeth-grating singing! Back when Kitty and I were house managers for an Equity theater, we had one play that opened with a recording of Yma's singing. For. Every. Damned. Performance. And, yes, teeth were grated for that entire run.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-28669328559834406602016-01-05T09:25:57.857-06:002016-01-05T09:25:57.857-06:00I still do, from what I can remember of them, thou...I still do, from what I can remember of them, though I've seen JUNGLE a lot more recently than this one.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-27820476532582328472016-01-05T08:54:28.569-06:002016-01-05T08:54:28.569-06:00Back in '54, I liked THE NAKED JUNGLE a lot be...Back in '54, I liked THE NAKED JUNGLE a lot better than this one.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-23073434168067006712016-01-05T08:40:04.147-06:002016-01-05T08:40:04.147-06:00If only you'd been wearing a leather jacket yo...If only you'd been wearing a leather jacket you could have lined the three pictures up together.<br /><br />All I remember of this is the same as you - Macchu Picchu and the horrendous singing of Yma Sumac. About a minute of that is enough.<br /><br />I've always tended to get this mixed up with Chuck Heston's other 1954 film, the classic THE NAKED JUNGLE. Too bad this didn't have a river of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_ant" rel="nofollow">army ants</a> devouring Yma Sumac.<br />Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-69482127018382515122016-01-05T05:55:49.589-06:002016-01-05T05:55:49.589-06:00There was an urban myth that Yma Sumac was really ...There was an urban myth that Yma Sumac was really a gal from Brooklyn named Amy Camus. My aunt used to have some of her records and you're right--a little goes a long, long way.Debnoreply@blogger.com