Enormously enjoyable crappy Hammer glamour production with a hunter (Michael Latimer) looking for the white rhinoceros finding himself in a prehistoric era where the world is run by brunette women who lord it over blonde girls and the men (who are slaves). In other words this is Hammer’s version of those sexist 50s sci fi films about all women societies such as Cat Women on the Moon.
There’s some great awful dancing (for a white rhino sacrifice), a few cat fights, a hilariously bad white rhino, lots of very attractive women in fut bikinis (Edina Ronney is the leader of the blondes), some dancing black tribesmen, very dodgy sexual politics (though to be fair the film acknowledges that the blondes were originally slave owners). The best performance is from Martine Beswicke who plays the villainous queen; she's in great form, whether trying to seduce Latimer and make him her toy boy, having milk baths, standing naked in front of Latimer, sacrificing blondes, or getting impaled by a rhino on wheels. Steven Berkoff is in the cast!
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