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Amos P.Stitch (Harry Myers), a filthy rich and eccentric drunk, hires
adventurer and animal traqpper Jim Franklyn (Walter Byron) to take him to
Africa to capture some animals for a zoo he wants to set up in his
backyard. Soon Stitch and Franklyn are off to the deepest, darkest jungle
of Africa with their guide Bernouth (Adolph Milar), a shady German, a
cabdriver (Ted Adams) who just wanted to get to Africa, complete with his
cab, and Oscar (Floyd Shackelford), a black man from Harlem Stitch has
mistaken for a native, but has taken an instant liking in once he learned
he's a fellow Manhattanite. Under Franklyn's lead, our heroes capture a
great many animals, but the next day, they are all released by ... a white
jungle girl in leopard skins (Rochelle Hudson) whom the natives worship as
Goddess, but all the white folks believed to be a legend - until now. It
doesn't take Franklyn long to capture her using a mirror as bait (after
all, she's a woman, this scene seems to say), and she's held in one of
the tents of the camp. That same night, Bernouth enters the tent and tries
to rape her, and she's saved only just by Franklyn. He immediately fires
Bernouth and sends him away, then releases the jungle girl, realizing her
place is in the jungle and nowhere else. But the next night, the jungle
girl returns and tries to get intimate with Franklyn, who's almost shocked
by her direct advances ... Bernouth meanwhile has hooked up with the
local natives and told them Franklyn has kidnapped their jungle goddess -
so the natives capture Franklyn and tie him to a stake to ... do something
to him, but then Stitch, Oscar and the driver show up in their cab, which
chases all the natives away. Franklyn rushes back to the camp to save the
jungle girl from Bernouth's dirty hands, and succeeds once again only just
- before the local gorilla (Charles Gemora) shows up to finish Bernouth
for good. And in the end Franklyn (and not the gorilla) gets the girl ... Cheap
early jungle girl movie that despite all of the shortcomings it shares
with many early low budget talkings - stagey direction, uneven and too
slow pacing, lack of incidental music - and of inexpensive jungle flicks -
too much stock footage and inside-for-outside-scenes - has a certain naive
charm, especially thanks to the strong (but really rather innocent) sexual
undercurrents on one hand, and the slightly ironic approach to the
material on the other. And hey, Rochelle Hudson at least looks good in
leopard skins, right?
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