Cobra Woman [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak

Overview

In this campy fantasy, the dreaded Cobra woman slithers through the African jungle. The story chronicles the struggle between two twin sisters, one good, the other evil, over the right to reign in the local cobra-worshiping cult.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/07/2020
UPC:	0738329242220
Original Release:	1944
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:11:00
Sales rank:	7,122

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Maria Montez	Tollea / Naja
Jon Hall	Ramu
Sabu	Kado
Lon Chaney	Hava,Hava
Edgar Barrier	Martok
Mary Nash	Queen
Lois Collier	Veeda
Samuel S. Hinds	Father Paul
Moroni Olsen	MacDonald
Robert Barron	Chief Guard
Fritz Leiber	Venreau
Belle Mitchell	Native Woman
John Bagni	Native
Paulita Arvizu	Handmaiden
Vivian Austin	Handmaiden
Carmen D'Antonio	Dancer
Beth Dean	Handmaiden
George Magrill	Guard
Eddie Parker	Guard
Elizabeth Risdon	Actor
Dale Van Sickel	Guard
Edward Ward	Composer

Technical Credits

Gene Lewis

Richard Brooks

John P. Fulton	Special Effects
Robert Siodmak	Director
George Waggner	Producer
Gene Lewis	Screenwriter
Richard Brooks	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

A lush score, glorious Technicolor, and Maria Montez times two are the main ingredients in this, the quintessential romantic Montez-John Hall melodrama. Never mind that the stunning Maria plays the good twin with permanently quivering lips and the evil one with all the hauteur of a chorus girl, that the screenplay sometimes becomes an exercise in tedium, or that Universal's back lot and on-location scenes filmed near Pacific Coast Highway look just like that -- a studio back lot and the Pacific Coast highway. This, after all, is Hollywood escapism at its zenith, a time capsule of moviegoing during the darkest days of World War II and a glorious testament to mind over matter. Add Sabu in skimpy bathing trunks, a deaf-mute Lon Chaney Jr. walking around as if in a daze, and a gaggle of Hollywood veterans done up in ridiculous costumes, and the result is a rather choice slice of cinematic ham.