The Pink Jungle
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The Pink Jungle is a 1968 film thriller starring James Garner
James Garner
James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...

, George Kennedy
George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke , airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and...

 and Eva Renzi
Eva Renzi
Eva Renzi was a German actress and the mother of Anouschka Renzi. Her father was from Denmark and her mother was French...

. The film was directed by Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann
Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty...

 and written by Charles Williams
Charles Williams (U.S. author)
Charles Williams was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies...

, adapting the 1965 novel Snake Water by Alan Williams
Alan Williams (novelist)
Alan Williams is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams. His younger brother Brook was also an actor.Williams was briefly...

.

Plot

A fashion photographer, Ben Morris, goes to a remote South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

 location to take pictures of model Alison Duquesne for a lipstick ad. An adventurer they encounter, Sammy Ryderbelt, steals their helicopter and leaves them stranded in the jungle.

When the three are reunited, they discover a treasure map on the corpse of the late Captain Stopes and the three team up to find it. They are joined by Crowley, a clever Australian who claims to be Stopes' former partner.

Crowley steals everyone's supplies and mules and takes off, but he is hunted down by Ryderbelt and killed. The remaining three make it to the diamond mine, only to find that a South American bandit leader, Raul Ortega, has beaten them to it. A battle leads to Ortega being seized and his men killed.

Ryderbelt makes off with the helicopter and diamonds before anyone can stop him. Local law officials are satisfied to have the long-wanted Ortega in custody at last. In an unexpected twist, Ben reveals he is not just a photographer but a U.S. government agent. He sets out after Ryderbelt and the loot.

Cast

James Garner
James Garner
James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...

 as Ben Morris

Eva Renzi
Eva Renzi
Eva Renzi was a German actress and the mother of Anouschka Renzi. Her father was from Denmark and her mother was French...

 as Alison Duguesne

George Kennedy
George Kennedy
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke , airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and...

 as Sammy Reiderbeit

Nigel Green
Nigel Green
Nigel Green was a South African-born English character actor. Because of his strapping build and commanding demeanour he would often be found playing military types and men of action in such classic sixties films as Jason and the Argonauts, Zulu, Tobruk and The Ipcress File.-Early life and...

 as Dennis McCune

Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara is a Syrian-born American stage, screen, and voice actor best known for his portrayal of Cochise in the American television series Broken Arrow, Kane in the 1979-81 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Commander Kang on three different Star Trek TV series.- Early life and...

 as Raul Ortega

External links

  • The Pink Jungle in the Internet Movie Database
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  • James Garner Interview on the Charlie Rose Show
  • James Garner interview at Archive of American Television
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