The Jungle Captive

The Jungle Captive (1945)

SHE-MONSTER... loving to kill!

Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.

Date of release
1945-06-25
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 3m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Harold Young
Collection
The Ape Woman Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Jungle Captive is a 1945 American horror film directed by Harold Young. The film is a sequel to Jungle Woman (1944), which had been preceded by Captive Wild Woman and is the final film in the Cheela, the Ape Woman series. Jungle Captive features Otto Kruger, Amelita Ward, and Rondo Hatton. Vicky Lane plays Paula Dupree/Cheela, the Ape Woman.

Production

Betty Bryant was signed by Universal to a term contract and was originally chosen for the role of the female lead in The Jungle Captive. One day before production began on the film on August 30, 1944, she told the associate producer of the film Morgan B. Cox that she did not know if she could find a babysitter for her 2-year old on certain nights of scheduled work.

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