Jungle Woman

Jungle Woman (1944)

RAPTUROUS BEAUTY!...FURY OF A BEAST!

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

Date of release
1944-06-01
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 1m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Reginald Le Borg
Collection
The Ape Woman Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Jungle Woman is a 1944 American horror film directed by Reginald LeBorg. The film stars Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier and Acquanetta. Jungle Woman was the second film in Universal's Cheela, the Ape Woman series, preceded by Captive Wild Woman.

Production

The film was originally titled Jungle Queen and had issues with its script as the Breen Office cited the script Edward Dein as being "unacceptable under the provisions of the Production Code by reason of a flavor of bestiality". This led to a meeting between the Breen Office, executive producer Will Cowan and Maurice Pivar was set up to tone down the more lurid implications of the screenplay.

Filming began on February 14, 1944, at Pollard Lake for pre-production with Acquanetta. In an interview in 1984 about the film, Edward Dein didn't recall much about the production of the film, but said that "we always used old sets from other films. These jungle pictures and horror films were exploitable, so we did them. Sixty minutes was about right for a B film because they were used as filler, like newsreel".

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