Vintage Pulp

December 19 2025

THE HUNTERS AND THE PREY

They originally wanted to go on the lion safari but it was all booked up.

Horror Safari should be the title of a movie about Christmas shopping, but no such luck—it’s a jungle safari movie, alright. You see an Italian poster above, and an alternate version at bottom. It was released in Italy this month in 1982 with an English title, but was renamed Invaders of the Lost Gold for its international release in an attempt to channel Raiders of the Lost Ark. You’re worried already, no? You should be. We became intrigued by the film because we discovered it features softcore icon Laura Gemser, who we saw recently in Violenza in un carcere femminile. Her skin flicks are terrible, but here she’s featured in an ostensibly non-erotic role, so we had to take a flyer on it.

In a prologue segment, a Japanese platoon carrying twelve cases of gold through the Philippine jungle at the end of World War II is attacked by tribesmen. They’re decimated, but the three survivors hide the cases. Thirty-six years later a hard-bitten fortune hunter catches wind of a treasure map, and procures it through violent means. He assembles an expedition peopled by the likes of Stuart Whitman, Glynis Barber, Woody Strode, and about ten others. The producers might as well have put that last group in t-shirts with the words “body count” stenciled across the front, because the horror part of the safari has to do with the fact that the tribe from earlier is cannibalistic.

Gemser has dealt with cannibals before (in the amazingly bad but still somewhat entertaining Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali), but we must say she isn’t nearly as clever this time around. Nor is the movie itself. Though she’s down the cast list a bit Gemser gets plenty of screen time, which is nice, and those minutes include a skinny-dip (so much for non-erotic), but sadly, she’s a weak actress whether her clothes are on or off, and cannibals apparently don’t know the difference between flesh that gives pleasure and flesh that gives sustenance. We’ve done our duty, though, giving Gemser a chance in a non-sexploitation role. All we can say in conclusion is bring on the skin.

Italy, Japan, Philippines, Horror Safari, Invaders of the Lost Gold, Stuart Whitman, Edmund Purdom, Woody Strode, Harold Sakata, Laura Gemser, Glynis Barber, poster art, cinema, nudity, movie review

Femmes Fatales

December 19 2024

BARBER SHOT

She's liable to take a little off the top for you—permanently.

South African born actress Glynis Barber is seen here in two publicity photos made in London for her late 1970s-early 1980s British sci-fi television series Blake’s 7. They were made in 1981, and though they date later than images we typically feature, we like them, so here they are.

South Africa, Britain, London, Blake's 7, Glynis Barber, television, sci-fi

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

February 17

1933—Blaine Act Passes

The Blaine Act, a congressional bill sponsored by Wisconsin senator John J. Blaine, is passed by the U.S. Senate and officially repeals the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, aka the Volstead Act, aka Prohibition. The repeal is formally adopted as the 21st Amendment to the Constitution on December 5, 1933.

February 17

1947—Voice of America Begins Broadcasting into U.S.S.R.

The state radio channel known as Voice of America and controlled by the U.S. State Department, begins broadcasting into the Soviet Union in Russian with the intent of countering Soviet radio programming directed against American leaders and policies. The Soviet Union responds by initiating electronic jamming of VOA broadcasts.

February 16

1937—Carothers Patents Nylon

Wallace H. Carothers, an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont Corporation, receives a patent for a silk substitute fabric called nylon. Carothers was a depressive who for years carried a cyanide capsule on a watch chain in case he wanted to commit suicide, but his genius helped produce other polymers such as neoprene and polyester. He eventually did take cyanideâ€”not in pill form, but dissolved in lemon juiceâ€”resulting in his death in late 1937.

February 15

1933—Franklin Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt

In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to shoot President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but is restrained by a crowd and, in the course of firing five wild shots, hits five people, including Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds three weeks later. Zangara is quickly tried and sentenced to eighty years in jail for attempted murder, but is later convicted of murder when Cermak dies. Zangara is sentenced to death and executed in Florida’s electric chair.

February 14

1929—Seven Men Shot Dead in Chicago

Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s South Side gang, are machine gunned to death in Chicago, Illinois, in an event that would become known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Because two of the shooters were dressed as police officers, it was initially thought that police might have been responsible, but an investigation soon proved the killings were gang related. The slaughter exceeded anything yet seen in the United States at that time.