SHE 1965 Adventure Film

Made by Hammer Film Productions in CinemaScope, based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, and Christopher Lee among others. The film was an international success and led to a 1968 sequel, The Vengeance of She. After receiving honorable discharges from the British Army in Palestine in 1918, Professor Holly (Peter Cushing), young Leo Vincey (John Richardson) and their orderly Job (Bernard Cribbins) embark on an expedition into a previously unexplored region of central-east Africa. They discover the lost city of Kuma after Leo receives a mysterious map revealing the city's whereabouts. This lost realm is ruled by Ayesha (Ursula Andress), who is also known as "She-Who-Waits" and "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed." Ayesha is a beautiful, immortal queen, who believes Leo is the reincarnation of her former lover, the priest Kallikrates, whom she had killed two thousand years before when she found him in the intimate embrace of another woman. It was she, who met with Leo in Palestine, giving him the map to Kuma, and urging him to travel there. Leo is filled with a dogged determination to do so as he sees visions of Ayesha beckoning to him with outstretched arms.

Having watched this film a few times now (5), the storyline itself is interesting enough but I fear the magic has sadly worn off for me. I now find Bernard Cribbins annoying, the acting pretty static, and as good looking as Ursula Andress was then beauty is only skin deep. If you have never seen it then do it deserves a viewing but don't be like me and out stay your welcome.