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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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Last of the Sommervilles
(episode of Thriller)
1961 TV B&W
One in this series
of dramas hosted by Boris Karloff. This episode revolves around
the "slowly dwindling" Sommerville clan and Ursula Sommerville's
dogged determination to become the last living member of her
family, and thus the sole possessor of the family fortune. The
program begins as Rutherford Sommerville arrives at the family's
foreboding home to visit his Aunt Celia and offer her "a
business proposition." He is also surprised to learn that
someone else is residing in the house: Ursula, his distant
cousin. Later, after Ursula has wielded her influence, Celia
decides not to cut Rutherford a $1,000 check for his business
venture. He becomes quite angered, as Ursula intended. Then,
Ursula -- Celia's sole beneficiary -- offers an enraged
Rutherford a deal: She will give Rutherford $20,000 of her
inheritance if he helps to murder their aunt. However, a kink
seems to be thrown into the proceedings when an old friend of
Celia's, Dr. Farnham, comes for a visit. But Ursula plots a way
to use Farnham's arrival to their advantage. Rutherford's murder
of his aunt goes according to plan, but then a mysterious and
damning note arrives in the mailbox and the plotting,
potentially paranoid cousins begin to wonder if they will need
to murder another person. As suspects for the blackmailer's
identity increase, the cousins begin to doubt each other,
leading to yet more twists before "the last of the Sommervilles"
is ultimately determined.
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Long Hot Summer "Hunt the Man Down"
196? TV B&W
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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. This clip has been upgraded. But the original
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Manohara - Supergirl
Indonesian
A basic superhero TV series. More information about this will be
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Magadheera
2009 Indian - Ram Charan, Kajal Aggarwal, Dev Gill
A bike stuntman recalls his previous life as a
warrior and pursues his love's reincarnation, while a sinister
figure from their shared past threatens to separate them
forever. A horse chase through desert salt flats results in a
baddie being thrown into some very loose dry sand where he sinks
under before the hero is able to rescue him. In the attempt, the
hero's chariot is also trapped in the sand and is slowly
sinking. The baddie forces the hero into the pit and then
leaves. The hero's horse eventually saves the guy. Clip
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Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
(aka
Nudo e selvaggio; Cannibal Ferox 2; A Baixeda dos Dinosauros;
Perdidos no Vale dos Dinossauros; Stranded in Dinosaur Valley)
1985 Italian - Michael Sopkiw, Suzanne Carvall
Passengers of an airplane crash in the jungles of
South America struggle to survive the usual rigors of the
rainforest, plus attacks by native tribesmen and a greedy man
who captures the women to use them in his slave-labor operation.
One of the passengers, a scholar, becomes excited when he
notices fossilized dinosaur footprints on one of the paths.
Stimulating jungle epic featuring a lot of smooth, wet, and
exposed skin. After romping through dense brush and rivers, the
main characters run into headhunters, and a blond bimbo wearing
red pants and a polkadot blouse meets her end in a pool of
quicksand as the man with her is run off by the hostiles. Clip
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Mating Season, The
1980 TV-Movie - Lucie Arnaz, Laurence Luckinbill
On a nature retreat, Lucie, wearing khaki slacks and light blue
blouse, sinks up to her waist in a lakeside marsh. She is hauled
out plastered with tan colored mud. Clip
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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. Clip
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Mr.
Natwarlal
1979 India - Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Ajit
When Natwar was a young boy, his older brother and caretaker,
police officer Gridharilal, is framed for bribery by sinister
criminal mastermind Vikram. When he grows up, Natwar creates a
secret identity for himself, posing as a powerful and mysterious
underworld figure named Mr. Natwarlal, determined to slowly but
surely exact vengeance on Vikram. Natwar is being chased through
the jungle by a hulking wrestler and stops just before running
into a watery but muddy pool. The wrestler, however, runs into
it and sinks to his waist. Natwar tries to untangle some vines
to pull him out, but when he turns back to help the big guy,
he's already gone under.
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Night Has Eyes, The
(aka Terror House)
1942 B&W - James Mason, Joyce Howard, Tucker McGuire
Two teachers, British Marian and American Doris,
visit the Yorkshire moors where a friend of theirs, Evelyn,
disappeared the year before. On a stormy night, they take refuge
in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist
shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War, along with his nurse and
her husband. Doris flees as soon as the storm subsides, but
Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her
growing romantic interest for Stephen, prompt her to stay on
among the misty bogs. In the final scene, when it is revealed
that it was the nurse and her husband who killed Evelyn, the
evil couple flee out onto the fogbound moor at night, but they
don't get far, falling victims to a very thick muddy bog (which
you don't see much of). Clip
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Okatsu Kyojo Tabi aka Yoen
dokufuden: Okatsu kyojo tabi
1969 Japan Clip
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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. Clip
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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. Clip
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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. Clip
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Operation Condor
(aka Feiying gaiwak; Armour of God II; Operation Eagle; Project
Eagle)
1990/1997 Hong Kong - Jackie Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Eva Cobo
A professional adventurer is hired to find WWII Nazi gold hidden
in the Sahara desert and teams up with three women. However
another group of mercenaries have ideas on the ownership of the
gold and are willing to kill to get their hands on it. A
battle/chase ensues as to who gets there first. The hero and two
women are being chased by some desert natives into some ruins.
One of the women gets a leg stuck up to her thigh in some dry
sand. When the others come to help, they are all fall through
the sand into an underground room when the ground collapses
under their feet. Clip
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Pavilion, The
1999 - Patsy Kensit, Richard Chamberlain, Daniel Riordan
This suspense thriller, set in the Civil War period, concerns a
beautiful woman and her father who find themselves on the run
from the law. Two men have offered to help them, but the men
have had long-standing differences have to learn to overcome
their own problems before they can help anyone else. A man
dressed in gentlemanly western attire watches a women dressed in
a dark blue dress walking along a beach when she suddenly starts
sinking in quicksand. He runs off the sand dune and pulls her
out of the thick bog after sinking to her waist. Later, the body
of a diseased soldier washes ashore, and two men dispose of him
in the same quicksand bog. Clip
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Primitives (aka
Primitif; Savage Terror)
1978 Indonesia - Enny Haryono, Barry Prima, Johann Mardjono
Three students and their guide head deep into the Indonesian
rain forest to locate and study primitive stone-age tribes
separated from all civilization. But their boat capsizes, and
the group is separated. Some are captured by a local cannibal
tribe who holds them prisoner, while the others wander aimlessly
through the jungle looking for their lost companions. While
running through the jungle, the woman splashes into a watery
brown pool of quicksand. One man grabs a stick while the other
climbs a tree to get to her. The man in the tree lowers himself
down so that the woman can grab hold of his legs and pull
herself up while the other man with the stick pushes her to the
side. She crawls out, but the man in the tree falls in after
grabbing a weak branch. The others pull him out with the stick,
and they all start running again. In another scene, one of them
fights a large snake which begins dragging him up a tree until
they fall and land in the mud below and start wrestling. The guy
triumphs, and the snake is eaten. Clip
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe
1983
Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon
Three people are transported into a parallel
reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but
medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a
murderous warlord. Soon after arriving in the Loast Universe,
Kay Lanz's character rescues a huge caveman from a bog. Clip
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Renegade (aka
Blueberry: L'experience Secrete)
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
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The
Return Of Count Yorga (aka The Abominable Count Yorga; Curse of
Count Yorga)
1971 - Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry
Count Yorga returns from the grave as he and his female vampires
take residence in a decrepit mansion near an orphanage where
strange happenings and disappearances soon occur. In one scene,
Count Yorga's henchman is seen out in the garden, pushing the
bodies of victims into a pit of quicksand with a pole. In
another scene, Count Yorga leads a priest to the same pit of
quicksand after he determines the priest is suspicious of the
count's true nature. The priest walks into the bog, becomes
stuck ankle deep, and slowly sinks. He begs to be saved, but
Count Yorga's unwillingness to help makes the priest realize
that the townspeople were right and that Yorga is a vampire. The
Count simply watches the priest sink to his death as the priest
holds up a cross and goes under.
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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. Clip
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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
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Safari
1999 Indian - Sanjay Dutt, Juhi Chawla, Mohnish Behl, Tanuja A
business woman plans to set up a factory on an undeveloped
island amid protests from the native inhabitants due to its
impact on the environment. When her plane crashes, a local man
rescues her, and the two fall in love while trekking through the
jungle. And to complicate matters worse, she accidentally
catches a murder on video, and now the killer is after her.
There is also a rival love interest when they return to the
mainland. After the hero collapses after pushing his boat
through shallow water and thick reeds, the indefatigable Anjali
(Juhi Chawla) jumps in and pushes the boat, wearing a long
reddish orange skirt and halter (like half a sari). In an area
with a thin coating of sawdust, she drops to her shoulders in
some quicksand under the water. She yells for help, and the
unconscious hero comes around, wades in, and rescues her just in
time. She then sobs in his arms. Clip
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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. Clip
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Secret of the Black Dragon
(aka Jenseits der Morgenrote; Beyond the Dawn)
1985 TV Movie German - Julian Glover, Ronald Beer, Ritza Brown
In 1648 Augsburg, Germany, seven men make their way to the
border river Amur in an attempt to find a new land route to
China across thousands of kilometres of wild land. There is a
fine marsh bog scene where a Russian woman is pursued by a
Mongol horse rider. She ends up struggling for her life in a bog
where she sinks quite deep. The Mongol saves her life at the
last moment by throwing her a rope. Clip
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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
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Sheela
(aka
Africadalli Sheela)
1986 Indian - Anand Balraj, Sahila Chaddha, B.S. Dwarakish
After her parents are killed, a baby girl grows
up in a jungle, with only animals as friends, guardians, and
companions. Sheela (with long brown hair and dressed in a brown
jungle-bikini outfit) fights (martial-arts style) a bad jungle
woman (with long red hair and dressed in a red jungle-bikini
outfit) until the baddie lands in a leaf-covered pool of watery
quicksand. She calls out for help as she slowly sinks from her
hips to her chin, until Sheela drops down on a vine and pulls
her out. Clip
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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. Clip
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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. Clip
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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. Clip
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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
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Sotto la Croce del Sud (aka
aka Under The Southern Cross)
1938 B&W Italian - Antonio Centa, Enrico Glori, Giovanni Grasso
Two partners return from the war to find their
coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer. Some
African-American slaves chase a white guy across a plantation
and into a swampy area with tall grasses and reeds. The guy
stumbles through some very thick mud and severely gets bogged
down and slowly sinks all the way under. Clip
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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
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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
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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
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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.) Clip
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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. Clip
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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. Clip
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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
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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
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Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
(aka Ursus nella valle dei leoni; Valley of the Lions)
1961 B&W/Color Italian/Spanish - Ed Fury, Moira Orfei
The mighty Ursus takes on an army of terrible barbarians. A
horse and its rider stumble into quicksand, and the man goes
under. Soon after, as Ursus approaches the baddies, his
girlfriend (in a white dress) is tied up and lowered into the
same pit to force Ursus to surrender to the baddies. She moans
and gasps as she sinks all the way up to her neck before Ursus
agrees and she is pulled out. There are two clips of this scene.
The first includes the male portion, while the second does not.. Clip1
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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
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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. Clip
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Woman in the Dunes
(aka Woman of the Dunes; Suna no onna)
1964 Japanese - Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito
An allegorical story about a man held captive in a sand pit
shared by a mysterious woman who spends her time preventing her
home from being swallowed by sand dunes and with whom he begins
an unusual relationship. When an amateur entomologist, spending
a three-day vacation pursuing his hobby in the desert, is in
need of a place to spend the night, he is taken by the village
locals to the house of a widow who lives at the bottom of a deep
sand pit. The next morning when the man tries to leave, he is
unable to scale the walls of the pit. He soon realizes that he
is a prisoner and is to assist the woman in her nightly labors
of shoveling sand. One night, he escapes one night but is
pursued by the locals. He scrambles over and down a large sand
dune and soon finds himself sinking into thick quicksand under
the desert sands at the bottom of the dune. He struggles and
sinks to his hips before being rescued by the villagers who are
wearing small planks of wood on their feet to keep from sinking.
They dig with shovels and pull him out using a long wood plank
on a rope. He is then returned to his prison where he and the
woman continue to constantly shovel sand to keep from being
buried alive and to provide the village with sand which it sells
to construction firms. The sand is almost alive in this movie,
showing various expressions, and "acts" as a main character in
several impressive scenes, including an unforgettable love scene
where the sand clings to the sweaty couple. Clip
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