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13 Cold Blooded Eagles, The (aka Thirteen Cold-Blooded Eagles; Xin leng
xue shi san ying)
1992 Hong Kong - Yan Yee Kwan, Waise Lee
A man and woman (he wearing a silverish Samurai-like full-length wrap-around
garb and she wearing a nice purplish dress with pearls) run through a swampy
forest in the misty early morning and suddenly find themselves in a leaf-covered
watery quicksand bog. He stumbles in first up to his waist, then inadvertently
pulls her in as well as she hangs on to his sleeve. He tells her to climb back
out before it's too late as they sink chest deep, but she (apparently) manages
to help pull them both out.
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Amuck! (aka Replica of a Crime; Maniac Mansion; Maniac; Alla
ricerca del piacere; Leather and Whips)
1972/1978 Italian - Sara Bay, Farley Granger, Barbara Bouchet
A mystery writer turns into a sexual lunatic. When his secretary turns up
missing, the woman's sister goes out looking for her. The heroine, a young
blonde woman in pigtails, is convinced to go out on a hunt with the antagonist
who gives her a gun with the safety set. When he starts "accidentally" shooting
at her, she flees through the marsh, wearing her outdoor hunting outfit, only to
fall into some watery deep mud along a stream bank. She struggles for quite some
time, slowly sinking up to her chest, before the detective arrives and rescues
her by taking off his coat and throwing one end out her as a lifeline.
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Apocalypto
2006
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity
is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man
captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.
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As the World Turns
2001 TV soap opera - Maura West, Annie Parisse,
Michael Park
Carly is finally convinced by Craig to testify for him again at his trial after
she's already been arraigned as an accessory (and he's posted her bail). At
their apartment, she runs into Julia... holding a gun. After threatening to kill
both Parker and Jack, Carly leaves with Julia. Carly realizes that Julia (with a
little help from Owen, of course) was behind the bombing of Barbara. They wind
up at a swamp formerly known as Carly's Prize. Julia announces her intentions to
bury Carly there in some quicksand, but Carly won't give in without a fight. She
charges at Julia, getting grazed with a bullet in the process, and knocks her
into the quicksand instead. Julia pleads for her life, and Carly pulls her out
and saves her life. Julia appears to be reasonably repentant until Carly brings
up the dreaded subject of Jack again, and Julia hurls Carly into the quicksand.
Carly begins to sink as Jack and his back-up officers arrive. And as the violins
swell, Jack pulls Carly out of the quicksand as the officers restrain Julia.
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Bare Essentials
1991 TV-Movie - Lisa Hartman, Gregory Harrison, Mark Linn-Baker
A stressed-out couple gets shipwrecked on a remote island paradise. The woman
(Lisa Hartman) starts out getting her water soaked white cotton dress shirt
plastered to her body after swimming to shore. Soon after, still wearing just
the shirt over her bikini, she sinks up to her shoulders in jungle ooze (which
you don't really get to see much of) and is hauled out with her legs and
shirttail coated in muck.
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Beastmaster, The BTS
1982 - Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn
A young prince, who can communicate with animals, battles an evil priest. While
chasing a couple of ferrets that stole his clothes, the Beastmaster slides down
a steep bank and plops waist deep in some dry on top but watery underneath
quicksand. He steadily sinks to his neck before he "commands" the ferrets to
chew a tree branch down which he then grabs and pulls himself out. This is
behind-the-scenes footage from the DVD extras where they show some different and
interesting angles of the quicksand scene which was one of the first scenes shot
for the movie. Clip
Bloodlust
1959 B&W - Robert Reed, Wilton Graff, June Kenny
A mad doctor on a remote island hunts humans for trophies and stores his
teenaged victims' cadavers in glass tanks. Two young couples involved in a
treasure hunt soon find themselves in an unbelievable nightmare. In one scene,
one of the good guys gets steps backward into some quicksand and slowly sinks to
this thighs before the other guy pulls him out. In another scene shortly
thereafter, one of the hunter's henchman walks into the same watery quicksand
after spotting one of the guy's shirts laying on the surface of the pit as he
and the crazed hunter track the guys through the jungle. The evil doctor
comments on the henchman's stupidity as he allows the baddie to slowly sinks to
his chin as he is attacked by leeches in the bog. (A low-budget remake of MOST
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Bride of the Monster (aka Bride of the Atom, Monster of the Marshes, The
Atomic Monster)
1955 B&W - Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
A renegade scientist flees his native country to perfect a race of mutant
supermen using atomic energy. Despite living in an isolated house in the middle
of a swamp, with his growling and scared assistant, he attracts the attention of
the police (quote, "This swamp is a monument to death. Snakes, alligators,
quicksand... all bent on one thing: destruction."), a professor who is actually
a spy sent to bring him home, and a reporter who is investigating mysterious
disappearances in the area. A male detective wearing a trench coat stumbles into
quicksand (a hole with some branches on top) while out in the swamp and slowly
sinks to his waist while mutant alligators try to attack him. He frightens them
away with his gun and manages to escape.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century "Unchained Woman"
1979 TV - Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor
Buck impersonates a convict in order to break an interplanetary gangster's
girlfriend (Jamie Lee Curtis) out of a maximum-security prison and enlist her
aid in catching her former companion. They head for a nearby spaceport for
return to Earth and are pursued by an indestructible android prison guard.
During their trek across a desert, the woman (wearing a tight-fitting red
jumpsuit) is attacked by a creature under the dry sand and is pulled down by its
tentacle until Buck rescues her. The android shows up and is thrown into the
same sand pit, but he later emerges, having ripped the creature apart.
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Captive Girl (aka Jungle Jim and the Captive Girl)
1950 B&W -
Johnny Weissmuller, Anita Lhoest, Buster Crabbe
Jungle Jim is asked to locate the Wild Girl of Lake Bokonji while battling a
roguish treasure hunter. He soon discovers she is an orphan who has lived in the
jungle with only a tiger for a companion. Dripping wet after hiding under water
from Jungle Jim, the jungle woman slips into a pool of very good looking
quicksand wearing a two-piece jungle outfit. She struggles and slowly sinks on
her side up to her chest before being slowly pulled to firm ground, with clumps
of the wet sand clinging to her legs, by Jungle Jim.
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Come and See
1985 Russian - Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova,
Liubomiras Lauciavicius
A boy is unwillingly thrust into the atrocities of war in WWII Byelorussia,
fighting for a hopelessly unequipped resistance movement against the ruthless
German forces. After digging up a rifle from the shallow grave of a dead
soldier, he is promptly drafted into the partisan army to fight the Nazis.
Witnessing scenes of abject terror and accidentally surviving horrifying
situations, he loses his innocence... and then his mind. After finding his
village in ruins and finding no survivors, the two young Russian teens (the boy
wearing combat fatigues and toting a rifle and the girl wearing a plain peasant
dress and shin-high boots) flee in horror through a swamp. Up to their chests,
they struggle their way through a boggy area filled with watery black muck.
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Convict Women (aka Thunder County; Cell Block Girls; Women's Prison Escape)
1974 - Ted Cassidy, Mickey Rooney, Carol Lawson
Four inmates escape from a women's prison and wind up stranded in a swamp with a
lecherous redneck after them. Meanwhile, a federal agent tracks a ring of heroin
smugglers through the same swamp. Wearing a pale blue prison dress, a brunette
gets seriously bogged down on a very dark night in a shallow swamp river and is
pulled out by a guy that has been following her.
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Crusoe
1989 - Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara
An old story with new twists on slavery, racism, power, and greed. About one
quarter into the movie, Crusoe and a native are fighting when they fall into a
pit of muddy quicksand. The native pulls himself out while Crusoe sinks up to
his chin. After scraping the mud off himself, the native lowers a tree branch
down to Crusoe who then proceeds to pull himself out. Clip
Dawn of the Mummy
1981 - Brenda King, Joan Levy, Ellen Faison
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient
curse. In a very dark scene, a young woman, wearing a red robe, is chased into
some dry quicksand (which can hardly be seen) by the mummy after finishing a
midnight skinny-dip.
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Days of Our Lives
2000 TV soap opera
Greta's stepfather dies and leaves her $100 million and the promise that 10,000
orphans will be gifted with homes, but first Greta (Julianne Morris) must pass
tests to prove she is virtuous, courageous, and pure of heart. So she and pal
Austin (Austin Peck) take an incredible journey into the Garden of Eden via
virtual reality where they, as Adam and Eve, have to survive several tests of
virtue. At one point, an evil witch, blaming Greta for her troubles, magically
lifts her into a "mini-volcano" into which she steadily sinks from her waist to
her shoulders.
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Dead Man's Gun "The Phrenologist"
1997 TV anthology series - Kris Kristofferson (narrator)
Set in the mythic old West, the series explores the legend of a dead man's gun
that grants whoever possesses it unforeseen powers... but with dangerous
results. A youth helps a haberdasher win his love with assistance from the gun.
When a teenage boy tries to help a man sinking in quicksand, he winds up
drowning in the intrigue of the man's shady actions. Befriending a lovelorn
phrenologist, the two must deal with the power of Dead Man's Gun, irate outlaws,
and large sums of cash. The guy is riding when his horse stops and flips him
into a bog of watery quicksand. He sinks to his waist before his calls for help
are heard by a young boy, but the boy can't pull him out. (Lousy quicksand, but
the actor plays it well.) Guest stars: C. Thomas Howell, Torrey Dickinson,
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Death Curse of Tartu
1967 - Fred Pinero, Doug Hobart, Babette Sherill
Four junior anthropologists disturb an Indian's grave in the Everglades and are
killed off by the forces of nature one by one. Decent shots of three young
ladies wading through knee-deep marsh muck. Later, a female student in a bikini
takes a swim in a very muddy marsh pond and crawls through some nice, gray,
shallow mud moments before she's mauled by an alligator. At the film's climax, a
blonde, wearing a blouse and a knee-length khaki skirt, is chased by the
reincarnated villain and shaken off a log into watery sawdust quicksand. She
struggles all the way under while the hero and villain fight. The villain lands
in the same quicksand and goes under, and woman is rescued with only her hand
visible above the surface.
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Divorce Italian Style (aka Divorzio All 'Italiana)
1962 B&W Italian - Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca
A whining sex-crazed Sicilian wife drives her husband to consider divorce.
Unfortunately, it is easier to murder in Italy than it is to divorce. The man,
watching his wife enjoy being buried up to her neck in the sandy beach, imagines
her sinking and screaming in quicksand.
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Dona Barbara
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Doctor Who (aka Dr. Who) "Carnival of Monsters, parts 1, 2, 3, 4"
1963 TV B&W/Color British - Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning
The adventures of an eccentric time-traveling alien and his various companions.
His exile rescinded, the Doctor takes Jo for a trip in the TARDIS and they land
inside a MiniScope, an electronic peepshow housing several dangerous alien
species just for the amusement of those watching, owned by a tatty circus
showman. While they romp around in an odd mixture of landscapes, Jo, dressed in
tight fitting jeans and over-the-knee boots with thick soles, gets stuck
knee-deep in some mud, and the Doctor has to pull her free. (Color episode)
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Escape from Hell (aka Escape; Savage Island; Hellfire on Ice, Part 2: Escape
from Hell)
1979 Italian - Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson
A typical sexploitative about woman prisoners escaping from a South American
prison jungle with lots of partial and full nudity. Several scenes of slave
labor carried out in watery places. The escape sequence at the end features a
dash through the swamp where one woman succumbs to a watery pool of quicksand.
(A badly edited version of this film appears as "Savage Island" with Linda Blair
appearing in short scenes at the beginning and end but not in the jungle.)
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Fantaghiro (aka Prinzessin Fantaghiro; Cave of the Golden Rose)
1991-1994 TV-Miniseries Italian/German - Alessandra Martines
In parts 3 & 4 (aka Fantaghiro II) of this 10-part miniseries, Fantaghiro and
Romualdo are preparing their marriage when the Black Queen, disgusted by their
deep love, captures Fantaghiro's father, and Romualdo and his soldiers go on
their journey to free him. Fantaghiro then follows Romualdo although she
promised him to stay home. About 45 minutes into part 3, Fantaghiro rides off
into the countryside on her talking horse. After riding awhile, she dismounts
and walks ahead of her horse down the path. Suddenly, she hears the horse
calling for help and turns to see him sinking. She dashes back to help, only to
run smack into the dry sawdust quicksand herself. She initially sink to the tops
of her legs but quickly sinks to her chest. There are a couple close-up shots of
her flailing about as she sinks to her chin, as well as her horse up to its
neck, and a final shot from behind her as her head disappears under the churning
bog. She wakes up a few scenes later in an underground cavern with a bunch of
bandits.
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Fantasy Island - The Devil and Mr. Rourke
The Devil (Roddey McDowell)
arrives on the island to try and capture the immortal soul of Mr. Roarke through
his goddaughter and tries to collect on another contract for the soul of a woman
guest who is there with her husband, but his plans are thwarted by the fact that
she is pregnant. The Devil causes a young island woman to fall into a pool of
quicksand that he conjured up. Julie tries to help her out but is unable to do
so and asks the Devil's help. Having provoked a "deal", the Devil causes a
branch to fall for Julie to grab and pull the girl out of the dry on top but wet
underneath quicksand.
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Ghost Whisperer
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Gilligan's Island "High Man on the Totem Pole"
1964 TV B&W/Color/Colorized - Tina Louise, Dawn Wells
Gilligan believes he is descended from headhunters when his likeness appears on
a totem pole. When Gilligan comes across Ginger and Mary Ann enjoying a mud
bath, immersed up to their necks, he thinks for a moment that the real
headhunters cut their heads off. (Color episode)
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Good Times
1967 - Sonny Bono, Cher, George Sanders
Sonny and Cher play themselves and spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes
when Sonny fantasizes about their potential movie roles. There's a Tarzan/Jane
segment in which Sonny winds up in quicksand with a lion pawing at his head
while he goes down. Clip
Gunsmoke - The Gold Mine
1955 TV B&W/Color - James Arness, Ken Curtis,
Amanda Blake
In a rough mining town to claim a gold mine she inherited, Kitty is befriended
by a young mute boy after she is confronted by a collection of cutthroats and
thieves. Dillon can't leave Dodge and sends Thad to find Kitty and look after
her. In one scene, the men are fighting and fall into the muddy slurry pit.
Kitty tries to pull the boy out and gets pushed in herself. She crawls out, then
helps the boy get out as the baddies run off. In another scene, the bad guys are
teasing her and shooting at her feet. She walks backwards and stumbles into the
same mud hole. She struggles a bit before the marshal shows up and runs off the
baddies. The boy tries to help her out, but she refuses until she can berate
Matt, then she pretty much stands up and walks out.
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Hercule's Journeys - The Road to Calydon
1995 TV - Kevin Sorbo,
Michael Hurst
Hercules is guiding a group of refugees through a swamp. While being attacked by
a giant, winged reptile, a young girl (Portia Dawson) and her brother fall into
a very dry quicksand pit. After knocking the beast into another pit, Herc dives
in with a vine and pulls them out after they had gone all the way under.
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Hi-de-hi! "The Perils of Peggy"
1980 TV British - Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Paul Shane
Comic goings on in an English holiday camp called Maplins. In spite of her
coldness towards him, Clive is desperate to win Gladys back, but he requires the
help of Ted and Peggy. The camp custodian Peggy attempts to make the camp
manager Clive appear heroic so that he could impress the senior camp counselor
Gladys. Peggy and some of her colleagues dig a pit of fake quicksand on the
beach, complete with a "Danger Quicksand" sign. As Clive and Gladys approach,
Peggy steps into the pit screaming for help. The plan backfires when Peggy finds
the pit uncomfortable and jumps back out in plain view of everyone. Gladys
showed fury with Clive for his attempts at heroism with "home made quicksand"
and storms off. Later, Gladys' cries for help are heard, and Clive finds her up
to her shoulders in real quicksand further down the beach. Clive gets down on
hands and knees and crawls out to save her (which is not shown).
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Hidalgo
2004 - Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Saudi
Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive
contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world. There is a
scene in which the horse and rider break through the crust of a quicksand salt
marsh bog, throwing the rider who almost immediately sinks up to his shoulders.
Later, you see him again with just his head sticking out.
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Hound of the Baskervilles, The
1983 TV-Movie British - Ian Richardson, Donald Churchill, Martin Shaw, Francesca
Gonshaw
Super sleuth Sherlock Holmes investigates the curse surrounding the heirs to the
Baskerville estate. Early in the film, a beautiful young woman flees Baskerville
on a white horse in the foggy night of the moor, and both run into the muddy
Grimpen Mire. The woman struggles to shore and is pulled out by Baskerville as
the horse goes under. At the end of the movie, the villain is also consumed by
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House Of Frankenstein
1944 B&W - Boris Karloff, John Carradine, Lon Chaney
A mad doctor meets Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster. At the
film's end, the torch bearing villagers arrive to chase the mad doctor, who is
being dragged along by the creature, into a swamp. He tells the Monster to stay
clear of the (rather watery) quicksand but he is ignored, and both sink out of
view. Clip
Jenseits Der Morgenrote aka
The Secret of the Black
Dragon
1985 Ritza Brown
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Journey to the Seventh Planet
1962 Danish - John Agar, Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch
A U.N. space expedition to the planet Uranus discovers a bizarre world right out
of their own heads, featuring places and people the crew members recall from
childhood. It's all part of a fantasy created by the planet's master, a giant,
pulsating brain that can also turn their worst thoughts into reality. While
traveling a frozen barren wasteland, one of guys slides down a hill into what
appears to be a dry pit of quicksand. As his partner pulls him out, he remarks
that the snow never melts because the temperature is so low, so it simply
collects in depressions, forming what he called quicksnow.
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Jungle Girl - Treasure Tomb (serial)
1941 B&W serial - Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Gerald Mohr
Nyoka the Jungle Girl fights an evil twin brother who killed her father, a
sneaky crook, and jungle warriors who can't quite decide whether to sacrifice
her or worship her. Nyoka, the hero, and the sidekick are chasing a native who
swings on a vine across a large pool of wet gunk. Nyoka stops her friends,
saying "That's quicksand!" She and the sidekick swing across safely, but when
the hero swings across, the branch breaks and dumps him chest deep into the
watery quicksand. The branch then falls and clunks him on the head, and he
slowly sinks under. Nyoka climbs the tree and shimmies down a vine to pull him
out but is interrupted when the native begins shooting arrows at them. The
sidekick draws his pistol and begins firing back while Nyoka continues to hang
onto the hero while hanging upside-down from the vine wrapped around her foot.
The native eventually runs off, and Nyoka and the sidekick drag the hero out of
the quicksand.
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Kaliman El Hombre Increible
1972
In Mexico and some parts of Latin America, From the middle off
the 60,s to the end of the 80,s one comic Hero was the king. Kaliman, "El hombre
increible". Kaliman is a semi legendary character. Dark skin and blue eyes, he
is a mestizo. He was raised as a prince somewhere near Pakistan, but learned the
secrets of the Tibetan monks. He has wealth, psychic powers, knowledge, and high
moral values. He travels with an Egyptian child, "Solin"
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Kilma, Queen of the Jungle (aka
La Diosa salvaje; Kilma la regina della jungla)
119754 Spanish - Eva
Miller/Blanca Estrada, Jacinto Molina/Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy
A shipwrecked s.o.b. gets himself stranded on an island full of beautiful women.
However, these beautiful babes can also skin you alive. Kilma (in a fur bikini)
ends up in watery leaf-covered quicksand while trying to rescue a couple of
diamond hunters who, while arguing, wandered into the bog. Both men go under as
she slowly sinks to her waist before being pulled free by another guy.
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Land That Time Forgot, The
1975 - Doug McClure, Susan Penhaligon
During WWI, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on
board. After it makes a wrong turn, the submarine ends up in the unknown land of
Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals. At the very end, the
heroine wearing a white sailor's outfit, is being chased by a caveman when they
both plunge into a watery brown pool of quicksand. They flounder around until
the hero arrives, plunges in, gives the cro-mag a solid kick, and pulls her and
himself to the edge while the baddie sinks out of sight.
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Lorna Doone (silent film version)
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Lost In Space (aka Space Family Robinson) "Hunter's Moon"
1965 TV B&W - Guy Williams, Mark Goddard
John Robinson is engaged in a "most dangerous game" with an alien big game
hunter. John is being pursued in a protective suit when he runs into some very
dry quicksand and sinks to his waist. The scene then cuts away to the hunter,
who sees "John" in the quicksand and moves in for the kill. However, somehow
John has managed to get out of both the quicksand and the suit, leaving it
standing upright in the quicksand as a decoy. John tackles the hunter as he
takes aim at the suit, and the two wrestle at the edge of the quicksand, but
neither falls in. Clip
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Lunatic Frog Women
1989 Hong Kong - Chen Wan Yuan, Ting Shann Hsiu
Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese women's detention camp as
they find themselves involved in a rebel group and trained as underwater
commandos. It starts out with a group of shackled, wet, and muddy women being
led through the prison yard on a rainy night. In the camp commander's office,
there's a series of rapid flashback scenes of the escape they were just captured
from. There are scenes of prisoners being impaled on pungy sticks, attacked by
dogs, and having their heads lopped off on the run by guards swing from vines.
The final sequence is of two women stumbling into quicksand. The scene is very
brief and ends with a cargo net falling on them.
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Miraculous Journey
1948 - Rory Calhoun, Audrey Long, Virginia Grey
Survivors of a plane crash learn to survive in the African jungle, aided by a
man marooned there several years earlier. A blind girl falls into quicksand and
is rescued by her seeing-eye dog.
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Natale In Sudafrica
2010 Italy
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Okatsu Kyojo Tabi aka
Yoen dokufuden:
Okatsu kyojo tabi
1969 Japan
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Old Dark House, The
1963 - Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott
An American car salesman in London is plunged into a nightmare when he delivers
a car to an old Welsh mansion but learns that the man who ordered the car has
died, apparently murdered. He spends the night with the deceased's highly
eccentric family and meets two sisters, a twin brother, another brother who is
building an ark in anticipation of another great flood, and their mother and
father. Every hour during the night, a different family member is found
sadistically murdered by one of the greedy relatives. While fleeing from the
suspected killer in the rain, the "normal" guy runs into a muddy bog and sinks
up to his neck. Another family member finds him and points his shotgun at the
guy, telling him to grab on so he can pull him out.
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Oops Teka Lang
2001 Philippines - Robin Padilla, Claudine Barretto
In the lurid, dark, and dangerous world of syndicates involved in drugs, sex and
violence, a reluctant ex-cop is hired by a persistent young novice to penetrate
a syndicated organized crime group to rescue her sister who they kidnapped for
their white slavery business. Posing as a nun, all dressed in white, the hero
leads the woman through the jungle when she stumbles into a pool of watery
quicksand and reeds. She sinks up to her shoulders, but when the hero tries to
pull her out, they are shot at by the baddies. However, he (apparently) manages
to drive them off and rescue the woman.
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Operacion Jaguar (aka Operation Jaguar)
198? Spanish
A cute red-head, in a tight yellow halter-top and cutoffs, lands in watery
quicksand while horsing around with her boyfriend. She screams a lot, and her
boyfriend pulls her out.
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Renegade (aka Blueberry: L'expérience Secrète)
2004 French/Mexican - Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen
In the 1870's, U.S Marshal Mike S. Blueberry tries to stop Wally Blount, the man
who killed his girlfriend, from getting to a stockpile of gold hidden in Indian
territory. On his way, he meets Prosit, a German villain on a persistent mission
to find gold in the Superstition Mountains. Blueberry pursues one of the baddies
into a dimly lit cavern where the bad guy stumbles into some thick quicksand and
sinks to his chest and chin, then his head slowly goes under. Air bubbles soon
appear on the surface as Blueberry and his Indian friend look on.
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Riders of the Desert
1932 B&W - Bob Steele, Gertrude Messenger
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded, but Bob Houston gets them to make
one more ride. They go after the outlaw gang led by Hashknife. At one point, Bob
and Barbara are riding along above a shallow, winding river with wide sand
banks. "You don't ever want to try cross down there," Bob explains manfully and
helpfully to Barbara. "That's quicksand!" Later, Hashknife escapes, taking
Barbara with him. With Bob in hot pursuit, Hashknife mires his horse down by the
river. The horse manages to free itself while Hashknife crawls out on his hands
and knees through the brush and deep mud. But Barbara (a cute blonde, wearing
boots, a long leather fringed skirt, black vest, white blouse with a kerchief,
and a white hat) is left behind, unconscious, lying on her side/back up to her
waist in the muck, slowly sinking. Bob rides up, leaps on the baddie, and the
two begin fighting. Every so often, the camera shifts back to poor Barbara, who
each time is a little deeper into the quicksand-like mire. Bob finally puts a
finishing punch on Hashknife, sees that the still unconscious Barbara has now
sunk up to her neck, and rushes to his faithful horse and pulls out his trusty
rope. Bob ties it around himself and wades into the muck up to his waist, with
his sidekick Slim holding the end of the rope to pull them back. Bob grabs
Barbara and yells to Slim to pull. Slim slowly pulls Bob and the now conscious
Barbara out of the mire and up onto the muddy bank.
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Run of the Country, The
1995 Ireland/US - Albert Finney, Matthew Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit
An Irish family drama about the testy relationship between a widowed cop and his
university-aged son who eventually gets involved with a woman who threatens
dad's plans. A guy is working on his tractor at the edge of a small bluff
overlooking a mud bog. One of his friends accidentally bumps the tractor's
gearshift, putting it into forward motion. The guy is knocked into the thick
black bog. The tractor then slides down the hill and lands on the guy in the bog
and slowly pushes him under, despite his friend's frantic efforts. Clip
Satan's Mistress aka Demon Rage; Fury of the Succubus; Dark Eyes; Bride
of Satan; Demon Seed
1981 - Lana Wood, Tom Hallick, John Carradine, Britt Ekland
A woman in an unhappy marriage finds sexual fulfillment in a relationship with a
ghostly presence. A hazy scene of a guy and girl sinking in quicksand on a
beach.
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Seminole
1953 - Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn
Hudson is a graduate of West Point assigned to an outpost near the Everglades
and tries to arrange a peace treaty with the local Seminole Indians. As a small
army travels on foot through the Everglades with a cannon, they run into some
watery quicksand but manage to escape. A wounded soldier, lying on the gun
carriage, goes under, and the hero wades back in and submerges to free him.
After getting him out, he is reprimanded by his superior for saving the man
instead of the cannon. Clip
Sheena "Divas of the Jungle"
2000 TV - Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson, Margo Moorer
Cutter's dream job of escorting three supermodels (Tiffany Phillips, Dyan
Handeland, Amy Weber) through the jungle for a simple photo shoot becomes a
nightmare when the photographer turns the shoot into a rescue operation and not
everyone is who they seem to be. When the models wander off and Cutter hears
them scream, he rushes in to find them shoulder deep in quicksand. They thrash
about as he tries to rescue them but can't reach. Sheena shows up, hangs
upside-down from a vine over the pit, and pulls the first model out as the other
two go under. Sheena then reaches into the bog and pulls the other two out. The
models go skinny dipping in the river to cleanup, while Cutter gets caught
watching them by Sheena.
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Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (aka Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo)
1970 Italian - Klaus Kinski, Anna Zinnemann, Patrizia Adiutori
A bloody tale about a gang of greedy killers who take off for Mexico in search
of stolen gold. The leader of the gang deceitfully shoots down the others one by
one and promises his young guide half of the gold if he can lead them through
the canyons and quicksand. When the journey ends, only two survivors remain to
battle for the elusive treasure. There is a scene of some rough men forcing two
women to trudge through the desert. One of the women breaks away and runs into
some nice looking quicksand. She struggles herself under while begging for help
from the man who stands at the edge and taunts her.
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Sin
2003 - Gary Oldman, Ving Rhames, Kerry Washington
It is said that in order to catch a killer, you must first truly understand the
motivations that drive their madness. The old saying is true, and a retired
homicide detective is about go to some of the darkest depths imaginable in a
desperate bid to rescue his sister from a monstrous maniac whose relentless
sadism knows no bounds. Slowly drawn into the dark underworld of drugs and
pornography, the detective soon learns that the bond he shares with the maniac
he stalks runs stronger and deeper than he ever imagined. When the two men come
face to face, their worlds collide in a furious blaze of lead and hellfire that
threatens to consume their very souls. Late in the movie, the cop attempts to
save the baddie from a pool of quicksand in the middle of the Nevada desert.
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Soggy Bottom USA (aka Swamp Rats; Soggy Bottom U.S.A.)
1980/1983 - Don Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Lois Nettleton
In this uproarious spoof of country life, a small town sheriff and his
moonshining cousin get themselves into hot water with the feds. There is a minor
and humorous quicksand scene involving a "city slicker" being thrown from his
horse while out on a coon hunt into what he called mud. Another guy then tells
him, "That ain't mud. That there's quicksand." No actual sinking involved, but
when he is on his back-side in the quicksand, it is shaking and shivering under
him while he is rolling out of it. In another scene, a woman falls off her horse
into a muddy morass, and another woman who was chasing her on her horse comes
and helps pull her out. It's not really quicksand, but the women do get wet and
muddy. Clip
Starcrash (aka The Adventures of Stella Star; Female Space
Invaders; Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione; Star Crash; Stella Star)
1979 - Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer
A pair of intrepid space smugglers are recruited to save the universe from a
powerful villain and his evil death machine. After a small explosion, Stella
escapes the prison work camp and dashes through the misty land outside as two
guards chase after her. Just when she thinks she is home free, she runs into a
bog of quicksand. Sinking fast, she calls out to the approaching guards for
help. After some deliberation, they decide to rescue her but are attacked by the
evil Vitons. As the hideous monsters make off with the guards, their guns fall
into the mud which is a lucky break for Stella who barely grasps one to use as a
hook to save herself. She crawls out of the quicksand to relative safety, then
faints. Clip
Strange Cargo
1940 B&W - Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre
A group of convicts escape from the infamous Devil's Island prison, aided by a
club entertainer. One of the convicts demonstrates an unusual Christ-like power
of healing. During his escape, Gable stumbles into some very thick quicksand. A
vine he grabs breaks loose, and he sinks further. He manages to grab another and
pull himself out after sinking to his waist. Clip
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945 B&W - Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a
hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The
queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them retrieve their stolen gold. When
Tarzan confronts two baddies who are carrying some of the treasure, they drop
the gold, turn, and run into a deep thick mud pit, struggle, and slowly
disappear. Clip
Tarzan Escapes
1936 B&W - Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler
White hunter Captain Fry tries to capture Tarzan and take him back to
civilization and put on public exhibition. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's
cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left to her.
At one point while leading the group along a trail in a foggy swamp, Tarzan has
finally had enough of the bad Captain Fry and sends him back into the swamp. Fry
turns around, grabs a stick to club Tarzan, but suddenly falls into the swamp
muck and disappears out of sight. (A short sequence and not very good. Also,
this movie was severely reshot and edited because it was deemed too violent. In
Gabe Essoe's book "Tarzan of the Movies", there are a couple of stills from the
cut footage. One shows a very wet and muddy Jane shaking hands with a pygmy
while Tarzan and others look on. A second shows the safari, some up to their
chins in muck, as Tarzan and Jane crouch together, fending off the devil bats.
The full version was never released and is believed lost.)
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 B&W - Gordon Scott, Vera Miles
Hunters, posing as photographers, trespass into Sukulu country where animals are
sacred. They stampede the animals across the river where they can be shot. The
woman nurse gets lost in the jungle, wearing a torn khaki shirt and skirt along
with jungle boots. She is startled by a large snake and stumbles into some
quicksand where she struggles and sinks up to her shoulders. Tarzan pulls her
out with a vine and cleans her up by a river. He rinses her dirty legs and
chest, and when she says what she really needs is a bath, he tosses her in. She
emerges soaking wet.
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Tim Tyler's Luck "Chapter 2: Dead Man's Pass", "Chapter 5: Trapped In The
Quicksands", and "Chapter 6: Jaws Of The Jungle"
1937 serial B&W - Frankie Thomas, Earl Douglas, Norman Willis
Based on the comic strip of the same name, youthful adventurer Tim Tyler heads
to Africa in search of his scientist father who is doing gorilla research there.
Along the way, he links up with Lora Lacey who hopes to capture Spider Webb, the
man responsible for the incarceration of Lora's brother and who has captured Dr.
Tyler and his "jungle cruiser" tank-like exploration vehicle. After reaching the
Dark Continent, Tim and Lora are exposed to every imaginable peril before the
diamond and ivory thief Spider can be brought to justice. In Chapter 2, Spider
and his henchmen traverse a dangerous expanse of quicksand which surrounds their
hideout. One of the men carrying a box of ammunition slips and falls into the
very watery pool and goes under as the others save the precious cargo. At the
end of Chapter 5 and beginning of Chapter 6, the baddies are trying to stop Tim
and the betraying Lazarre from escaping. They try to blow-up the causeway built
just beneath the surface of the quicksand which they use to drive the "jungle
cruiser" safely across, but instead they almost kill Tim who has been thrown
into the watery quicksand. As the baddies run from the arriving cavalry, Lazarre
and the other men manage to pull an unconscious Tim free of the bog.
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Time Tunnel "Chase Through Time"
1966 TV - James Darren, Robert Colbert
Doug and Tony must find a spy (Robert Duvall) who has planted a bomb in the Time
Tunnel Complex. The bad guy runs into the tunnel and eventually ends up back in
the prehistoric period. He is chased by a typical Irwin Allen lizard beast and
runs into a pit of very dry quicksand up to his neck where Doug and Tony pull
him out. Clip
Time Tunnel "The Last Patrol"
1966 TV - James Darren, Robert Colbert
During a Revolutionary War trip, a British redcoat officer (Michael Pate),
wearing frontier deer skin clothing, stumbles into very dry quicksand and is
trapped up to his chest. He is rescued, only to be taken prisoner and threatened
with a death sentence by the general (Carroll O'Connor). Clip
Untitled (Chinese, Funny) MM Clip
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Enemies"
1964 TV B&W/Color - Richard Basehart, David Hedison
Captain Crane and Admiral Nelson are on an island, subjects of an experiment by
an evil scientist. They are given something in the water to make them hate each
other. In a fight with Crane, Nelson rolls into a pool of quicksand. As the
scientist's military partner (Michael Ansara) comes up behind Crane, Nelson
shoots him, and he falls into the quicksand and sinks beneath the surface, his
rifle remaining on the surface. Morton and the men arrive, hold and subdue
Crane, and pull Nelson out who has sunk to his waist. (BW episode) Clip
Witchmaker, The (aka Witchkill; Witchmaster; Legend of
Witch Hollow)
1969 - John Lodge, Alvy Moore, Thordis Brandt, Anthony Eisley
A professor of paranormal studies leads a group into the Louisiana swamp to
investigate a string of witchcraft-related murders. Running from an evil and
powerful warlock, a young blonde is knocked into watery quicksand after a brief
struggle with him in which her thin red dress is torn off (no nudity seen). She
is rescued, coated with slick mud, by the man running with her after he pushes
the evil one into the quicksand. The possessed woman then pushes the man into
the same quicksand.
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Update History
3/28/14
13 Cold Blooded Eagles
Apocalypto
As the World Turns
Captive Girl
Come and See
Days of Our Lives
Death Curse of Tartu
Fantaghiro
Fantasy Island - The Devil and Mr. Rourke
Gunsmoke - The Gold Mine
Hercule's Journeys - The Road to Calydon
Jenseits Der Morgenrote
Kaliman El Hombre Increible
Kilma, Queen of the Jungle
Lunatic Frog women
Natale In Sudafrica
Okatsu Kyojo Tabi
Oops Teka Lang
Satan's Mistress aka Demon Rage
12/8/13
Untitled (Chinese Funny)
Crusoe
Dead Man's Gun - The Phrenologist
Lost in Space - Hunter's Moon
Run of the Country, The
Seminole
Strange Cargo
Time Tunnel - Chase Through Time
Time Tunnel - The Last Patrol
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - The Enemies
5/12/13
Beastmaster BTS
Bloodlust
Bride of the Monster
Dr Who - Carnival of Monsters
Hidalgo
Hound of the Baskervilles 1983 scene one
Hound of the Baskervilles 1983 scene two
House of Frankenstein
Journey to the Seventh Planet
Lorna Doone (Silent)
Old Dark House, The
Perils of Nyoka
Renegade
Riders of the Desert
Sin
Soggybottom USA
Tim Tyler's Luck
Mystery Clip #1
Mystery Clip #2
12/6/12
Bare Essentials
Dawn of the Mummy
Dona Barbara
Ghost Whisperer
Gilligan's Island (Totem Pole)
Hi-de-hi
Kruzheva
Miraculous Journey
Parvarish
Sheena (Divas)
Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead
Starcrash
Tarzan Escapes
Witchmaker
9/29/12
Amuck
Buck Rogers
Convict Women
Divorce, Italian Style
Escape From Hell
Good Times
Land That Time Forgot
Operacion Jaguar
Tarzan and the Amazons
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle