Tennessee Buck

Original title: The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck

1988
R
1h 28m

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4.5/10

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David Keith, Kathy Shower, Tiziana Stella, Pearl Vasudevi, and Brant von Hoffman in Tennessee Buck (1988)

A drunken, down-on-his-luck adventurer is hired by a wealthy man and his beautiful wife to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. After a while, though, the guide begins to suspect that there's more to the expedition than just hunting.

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A broke, alcoholic guide leads a rich couple on a jungle hunting trip, but grows suspicious of their true motives as the expedition progresses.A broke, alcoholic guide leads a rich couple on a jungle hunting trip, but grows suspicious of their true motives as the expedition progresses.A broke, alcoholic guide leads a rich couple on a jungle hunting trip, but grows suspicious of their true motives as the expedition progresses.

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IMDb RATING

4.5/10

877

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Ken Manchester
(as Brant Van Hoffmann)

Sydney Lassick

Wolfgang Meyer

Stephen Davis

Argo

Sillaiyoor Selvarajan

Sinaga

Pearl Vasudevi

Chief's Mother

Sumita Mudannayaka

Young Chief
(as Sumith Mudannayaka)

Somy Ratnayake

Witchdoctor
(as Somi Ratnayake)

Piyadasa Wijekoon

Panang Chief

Lilani Perera

Panang Chief's Wife

Solomon Hapte-Selassie

Tiziana Stella

Patricia Zanetti

Monique
(as Patrizia Zanetti)

Augustus Pietrangali

Chief Mandot

Kapila Sigara

Policeman

Reglus Perera

Policeman

Presanna Fonseka

Policeman

Director
- David Keith
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4Wuchakk

David Keith in an Indy Jones knockoff

A rich Caucasian couple vacationing in Borneo (which looks suspiciously like Sri Lanka) hires a famous hunter to take them up a river where dangerous headhunters dwell.

Shot in 1987 and released in 1988, "The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck" is a 'B' imitation of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" along the lines of "King Solomon's Mines" (1985) and "Firewalker." Regrettably, it's easily the least of these. It starts off entertaining enough, but the second half devolves into dull activities in the deep jungle, which the creators try to spice up with nudity and a rape sequence involving the character played by statuesque blonde Kathy Shower. There's also a beheading scene reminiscent of "Apocalypse Now."

Shower is effective enough, yet comes across as a low budget version of Kate Capshaw in "Temple of Doom." It's brunette Tiziana Stella as Che who's the real highlight in the feminine department; with a nod to Patricia Zanetti as Monique. Unfortunately, both are absent after the first act.

The plot was ripped off from Louis L'Amour's "The Diamond of Jeru," which was made into a 'B' movie in 2001 with Billy Zane, Keith Carradine and Paris Jefferson. That one's not flip like this juvenile flick, but takes the material seriously and has mature themes. I don't mind the 'fun' spirit of this movie; it's just that it loses its mojo after the first half. Still, the jungle locations are great and Keith is surprisingly good in the titular role.

It runs 1 hour, 30 minutes, and was shot in Sri Lanka.

GRADE: C/C-

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T+A=ZZZZZZ

It's "Indiana Jones" meets "Bikini Car Wash Company," or something like that. Doesn't do either well enough to recommend -- except for a single memorable scene in which Shower is rubbed down by the natives (a la Bo Derek in her Tarzan bomb) and then "taken" by the chief.

5merklekranz

"Bloomingdales" bimbo explores Borneo ...........

First and foremost "Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck" must be considered nothing more than a vanity project for David Keith, who both stars and directs. His stereotyped "big white hunter" act is a challenge to watch. What is not difficult to watch is naked "Playmate Bunny", Kathy Shower, getting lubed and oiled by some native women. Otherwise, the story is familiar, the jungle scenery acceptable, and Keith's seaplane scenes at least help to maintain interest. Whoever thought up the idea that somehow you can mix comedy with decapitations and rape, in what was obviously not intended as dark humor, should have been clued they had a concept that wasn't fully developed. - MERK

6TheJonesBones

Pure Cheeeeese!!!

Okay, so "The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck" never won any awards and it probably never will do and, sure, it is PURE CHEESE. But it's a good kind of cheese, you know, like when you order a pepperoni pie with extra mozerella!

You have to watch this film with a pizza-frame-of-mind, 'cause it's that kind of movie. This is a story about a drunken ne'erdowell "guide" hired to lead a yuppy couple through the jungle on a mysterious quest. Along the way, they meet various pseudo-jungle-type inhabitants - many of them stereo-typical canibals and headhunters - but before you judge, just take note of the first fight scene. It's two hairy white guys dressed like they just exited a 1930's adventure film. Oh, and Tennessee Buck has magic amulet. Just sayin.

I think it was intended to be campy. I hope so, 'cause it is even if it wasn't.

Still, that's what makes this movie so much fun - that and David Keith playing a tough guy. I mean, the dude is like a big teddy bear!

So, pop some corn, grab a slice and watch ('cause this movie is corny and cheesy)!!!

4gridoon

Unfunny and Unexciting

In the unlikely case that some aspiring directors are reading these comments, I'd like to offer some advice (free of charge!), from a viewer's perspective. If you want to make a serious exotic adventure film, do it. If you want to make a spoof of exotic adventure films, go ahead. DO NOT try to make both at the same time, it doesn't work. For example, having a goofy "comic relief" character killed and beheaded and following it up with a monkey shaking a tree and dropping a coconut on a cannibal's head just makes you look like you had NO IDEA what kind of movie you wanted to make. This one is boring, meandering, cheap, racist....you get the picture. A couple of smart moments and a few glimpses of nudity from Kathy Shower (way too prissy here) are hardly worth your trouble. There is a reason everyone has forgotten about this film's existence. (*1/2)

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Trivia
The infamous scene where Barbara (Kathy Shower) is rubbed with oil and raped by village chief was much longer and more sexual in rough cut of the film that was submitted to the MPAA who gave it X rating.

In the original scene she was being held by two native women in front of the chief's mother while the other two women remove her clothes and scatter it on floor as the chief's mother looks on. They then pin Barbara onto a table and begin to rub her in oil. The oil rubdown was few minutes longer and more erotic, the native women rub oil aggressively in between Barbara's thighs and her hips respond by grinding back vigorously. There was more strong breast kneading and squeezing with Barbara's erect nipples being tweaked and pulled. Barbara moans a few times to the point of orgasm while this happens, before she eventually does climaxes. After the scene when chief arrives and throws decapitated head at her, he then forces her in position with her rear up in the air before the rape scene, which was also much longer and graphic.

Quotes
Barbara Manchester: How can anyone shoot like that? And when they've been drinking!
Buck Malone: It takes a lot of practice. Four or five hours a day, seven days a week.
Ken Manchester: You practice shoot that much?
Buck Malone: No, I drink that much.

Alternate versions
There was an very rare alternative version of the film that was only show on cable back in the 1990's. This version contained extended and missing scenes not shown in the official version which shows more of Barbara Manchester's (Kathy Shower) ordeal at the hands of the savage natives. The stripping of Barbara Barbara is held up against the wall of the hut by two young native women while an older native woman stands in front of Barbara and proceeds to pull at her shirt. Barbara's shirt is ripped open revealing her bosom and then Barbara is striped down to her panties before being pulled away to the chief's bed for her oil rub down. Extended oil sequence The infamous oil rub down is only a minute long in the official version. In this extended version the oil sequence is around 2 minutes long with additional shots of Barbara having her breasts squeezed hard relentlessly with more moans coming from Barbara as the native women work her up into a frenzy. Extra and longer sex scenes The first is of Barbara, having been oiled up extensively by the native women, lying on her front with her rear slightly raised with the chief taking her from behind. There is a wide shot of this happening that is not in the official version. The next sex scene occurs after the chief enters the hut with a naked oiled up Barbara sitting on the ground. He glares at her as Barbara backs up to the hut's wall and says in an angry tone "What do you want?" The chief then throws the head of her husband at her. This scene is extended with the chief having sex with Barbara a second time except this time Barbara is lying on her back and the chief is on top of her.