Wednesday, August 05, 2020

The Flying Serpent

The Flying Serpent is a 1946 fantasy/horror film directed by Sam Newfield and starring George Zucco. This text scrolls at the beginning:
Near the little city of San Juan, New Mexico, stand the Aztec ruins. Archeologists tell us they are the remains of a once great temple, abandoned by the Aztecs when they migrated south to the Valley of Mexico, where they founded a rich empire. To defeat the greed of Cortez and his Spanish adventurers who had inaugurated a campaign of loot and murder, the wiley Emperor Montezuma hid his fabulous treasure far to the north and implored his native gods to guard it.

Among these gods was the feathered serpent -Quetzalcoatl.
At not quite an hour, it's quick and easy to watch:

12 comments:

  1. ... Wikipedia had an interesting description of Quetzalcoatl.

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    1. Your comment made me curious, so I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl Cool!

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  2. I watched the first 10 minutes and couldn't get into it. It started out interesting, then it was just too slow for me.

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    1. The setting up of some of these is sometimes slow, but they're so short I've never minded.

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  3. Hmmm. It sounds like a fun fantasy. I don't know if there's any truth to the Aztecs being so far north, but let me let go of my anal side to enjoy this.

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    1. No, Aztecs were further south in real life, but fantasy stories don't care about real life ;)

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  4. From my birth year, but I don't think I want to watch it! Valerie

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  5. You do provide interesting links to films and books.
    Thank you.

    All the best Jan

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    1. These old monster movies used to be so popular!

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  6. Sounds like it was a good way to spend an hour ...lol 😀. Happy wishes! Hugs, Jo x

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    1. Yes! Takin' my fun where I find it ;)

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