The Spring - Auf der Suche nach dem Kristall des Lebens

The video cover of THE SPRING makes you think that it'll be a film filled with sex or nudity, and though there are some very brief nude scenes of Shari Shattuck, there's no sex in this flick. Nothing. It's a long and boring and stupid movie that looks like a long lost episode of THE RELIC HUNTER. They should call this one DERELICT HUNTER, not THE SPRING.

Avoid at all cost!!!

Where can i get a copy of this movie, some of the scenes were filmed in the sinkhole in my backyard in 1989

This is Shari Shattuck at her best!!! Wow, what a knockout she is!!! I guess she must have been the best looking woman in America in 1989. Probably still is. THE SPRING is becoming a cult movie; check out its ebay activity. It's a wonderful indie flick with beautiful footage filmed in Central Florida. The actors/actresses gave 100%. I understand that it has been re-made for release in 2001 and I hope it will spark interest in the original version. If you can find it; buy it!

My review was written in July 1990 after watching the movie on Quest Entertainment video cassette.

"The Spring" is an oddball romance about Ponce De Leon's fabled fountain of youth. Florida-made feature went direct to video for the voyeur trade.

Filmmaker Hugh Parks (who produced and scripted) seems obsessed with the old Cecil B. DeMille formula of pulchritude, flashbacks and spirituality. Like his previous film "Before God" (released as "After School"), "Spring" mixes contemporary footage with topless flashbacks of Indian girls at the magical spring when the Spanish explorer arrived 400 years ago.

Main tale deals with museum researcher Dack Rambo and his assistant Gedde Watanabe heading for Florida with evidence as to the whereabouts of the Fountain of Youth. They arrive coincidentally with a cosmetics confab where venal industrialist Steven Keats is out to exploit the find.

Rambo falls in love with blonde beauty Shari Shattuck, who turns out to be an 87-year-old woman preserved by the magic waters guarded by an ancient Indian chief (Robert V. Barron). Aided by a voodoo priestess (Virginia Watson), the heroes make it through a phony happy ending.

Main draw here is Shattuck. Tech credits are fine, especially Jordan Klein Junior's underwater photography.

If you`re into slow moving, dull, action movies then this one is right up your alley. Dack Rambo as the leading man of this turkey should clue you in pretty quickly. The acting is poor at best as this Indiana Jones wannabe plods along to its conclusion. Don`t waste your time.