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Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald

Liane, Jungle Goddess

West Germany 1956
produced by
Helmuth Volmer for Arca-Filmproduktion
directed by Eduard von Borsody
starring Marion Michael, Hardy Krüger, Rudolf Forster, Reggie Nalder, Peter Mosbacher, Irène Galter, Jean Pierre Faye, Rolf von Nauckhoff, Ed Tracy, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Olga von Togni, Arno Paulsen
screenplay by Ernst von Salomon, based on an idea by Thomas Fought & a novel by Anne Day-Helveg, music by Erwin Halletz

Liane

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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On an expedition in the deep African jungle, photographer Thoren (Hardy Krüger) one day stumbles over a white (topless) girl, Liane, who strolls around the jungle as if she owned the place, & who frees him from some natives. From now on,he has just one idea, to take pictures of the alomost naked jungle girl, but his colleague Keller's (Reinhard Kolldehoff) ideas go even further, & soon enough he captures her in a net & takes her to their camp. Soon, er tribe, the Vodos, attack, but are scared off by some native drumming caught on tape.

Now Thoren & friends seem to have just one idea, to get the girl, a sweet litle 17 who has been living in the jungle for most of her life & does only speak the natives' language, back to civilisation.

Soon enough, Liane the jungle girl has made the front page of every newspaper in Europe, & hamburg based wealthy ship owner Ammelongen (Rudolf Forster) soon thinks she is his granddaughter who disappeared in a shipwreck 15 years ago, & he asks his nephew & CEO of his company Schöning (Reggie Nalder), to get him the girl.

Soon enough Liane, her black servant Tanga (Jean Pierre Faye), a baby lion, & Thoren are welcomed as guests into Ammerlong's house ... much to the dismay of Schöning, who fears for his inheritance, since he is the only other relative of Ammelongen. So Schöning uses every trick in the book to discredit Liane & prove that she is not Ammelongen's granddaughter - to no avail as it seems since Ammelongen finds a letter from his daughtr with little Liane's fingerprints on it that match exactly big Liane's prints. So Schöning grows desperate & first destroys the evidence, then kills his uncle leaving sufficient efidence to make Tanga a tailormade suspect. But the investigating officer (Arno Paulsen) sees through Schönign's little charade, & in the end Schöning dies on the run from the law when he drives his car off a bridge.

Liane though is disappointed from civilisation & returns to Africa & her tribe, the Vodos.

 

Of course, jungle girl films in the 1950's were a dime a dozen, stil this film managed to be tremenduously successful especially in Germany & all over Western Europe - since its lead actress, cute 17-year old Marion Michael, had extended topless scenes, a thing almost unthinkable in the 1950's.

Does this make Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald a good film ?

Probably not, apart from the nudity, the film is pretty childish, predictable, full of kitsch & does support a rather conservative world view (though one can't really compare the world view of the 1950's with today's world view).

But is the film entertaining ?

If you can accept the cheesy adventure stories, unintentional humour & an underbudgeted & corny representation of Africa, this might just be your movie.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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