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Great Film overall

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I will write a little more about this, because it's a bit special, at least for me, being myself born beyond the iron curtain, just like the main female character of this film. I saw Charlton Heston in many movies that I liked very much: "Soylent Green", "Planet of the Apes", "El Cid", "Ben-Hur", "The Big Country", "Touch of Evil", "The Wreck of the Mary Deare", "Major Dundee", "Agony and the Ecstasy", "Khartoum", "The Omega Man", "Antony and Cleopatra", "The Three Musketeers", "Airport 1975", "The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge", "Earthquake", "The Awakening", "Mother Lode", "Tombstone", "True Lies". All big, great films, in which he usually has the lead role. All films which delighted my childhood and adolescence beyond the iron curtain, in the same country as the character Elena Antonescu from this film. A character played by the beautiful French Nicole Maurey, whom I have seen also in "Sale temps pour les mouches", "Killer Spy", "The Scapegoat" and "Diary of a Country Priest". She is very convincing here, playing a character similar to me in real life, being also born in the same country, Romania. I've seen Thomas Mitchell in many famous and very good movies, he's a very good actor, "Gone with the Wind", "Tales of Manhattan", "It's a Wonderful Life", "High Noon", "Pocketful of Miracles". Yma Sumac, probably the greatest voice of all time, in her first role as an actress, also singing and being very funny. Leon Askin, who I saw in "Road to Bali", "The Terror of Doctor Mabuse" and "Airplane II: The Sequel", very good in the role of the Romanian officer of Securitate Anton Marcu. The story is very simple and very well accomplished by Jerry Hopper.

Like probably most of the people who become interested in this film now I decided to watch it in desire of becoming more familiar with classics that inspired Indiana Jones. Frankly I was quite disappointed. It had great possibilities to develop. Charismatic adventurous protagonist with a key to the great treasure of the Incas. Love interest, defector from the Eastern bloc who stays illegally in the country. The somewhat friendly antagonist who is not so different from the main character. I wouldn't call him evil twin but rather possible dark (if somewhat pathetic) future of the protagonist if he doesn't reconsider his ways. Personally I liked the role it played in the plot. While one may consider all these clichés they prepare everything required for perfect adventure. The main problem is that for the adventure movie... there is not much adventure going on! I don't even mean action scenes but simply doing anything more than enjoying hospitality of the archaeologists! Still I enjoyed the atmosphere and my own expectations a lot. Thaks to that I can't call this movie bad.

In the 1950s, Charlton Heston occasionally played nasty characters--such as "Dark City". But here in "Secret of the Incas" he's at his nastiest. I don't mean his most evil--just nasty! He is 100% smart-mouthed and cynical. While this technically isn't an example of film noir, Heston's character is pure noir--a guy whose moral compass clearly has cracked and who utters more great one-liners than a Raymond Chandler or Mickey Spillane film! I really loved this--and it made an okay move a heck of a lot more enjoyable. Now I am sure some of his fans won't find this dark side that much fun to watch...it all depends on the sort of characters you like.The film finds Heston living in Peru. He has been there a long time but he really wants to get out and get back to the States. But, along the way, he's looking for a big score. Soon the possibility of one drops into his lap in the form of a refugee from behind the Iron Curtain (Nicole Maurey). She is on the run and Heston decides to use her to extract money from the communist officials chasing her. His scenes with Leon Askin are priceless--as Heston used and abused the man in a style that is unforgettable. Eventually, he steals Askin's airplane and he and the girl set off for adventure. She is desperate to make it to America...or at least Mexico. But Heston is out for #1--and wants this big score first--and she'll just have to take it or leave it!In many ways, this film is like an Indiana Jones film with a completely amoral leading man and none of the paranormal mumbo-jumbo. I enjoyed it mostly because the characters (not just Heston) were very interesting. A few of the things I didn't like wereYma Sumac's horrible screeching,...I mean 'singing' (one viewer gave the movie a 10 simply because of her singing--let's just say we don't agree) and the horribly dark print from Netflix online. Also, at the end, Heston's character does NOT remain true to his character--and it loses a point because of this. Not a great movie, but Heston's character was great--and is worth seeing!

Despite the intriguing title, this is a tedious potboiler with very little to commend it save the evocative Peruvian locations. A stiff, pre-stardom Charlton Heston is an arrogant opportunist whose dress code might well have inspired Indiana Jones but his adventures, unfortunately for the viewer, are nowhere near as exciting. Robert Young (unconvinging as a belatedly introduced archaeologist), Thomas Mitchell (as Heston's double-crossing partner) and Michael Pate (ridiculously decked out in a Rumpelstiltskin hat as the Inca High Priest or something) are on hand to lend the film some much needed support but the female cast is very weak: Nicole Maurey tries too hard as the damsel-in-distress heroine, Glenda Farrell is wasted as an American tourist with an eye on Heston, and Peruvian singer Yma Sumac almost sinks the film with her embarrassing over-the-top chanting!