The Blonde Captive (1931)

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The Blonde Captive is a 1931 pre-Code film directed by Clinton Childs, Ralph P. King, Linus J. Wilson, and Paul Withington. The film took previously released anthropological footage of native peoples in the Pacific and Australia, and added a sensationalized storyline.

Production

Accompanied by Paul Withington, Clinton Childs and two cinematographers, in 1928 psychologist Stanley Porteus conducted psychological and psychophysical studies of Aboriginal groups in North West Australia and Central Australia. The study was filmed and the resulting documentary was expected to show the results of an officially sanctioned scientific expedition exploring the Indigenous cultures in Northern Australia.

Produced by Porteus' North Western Australian Expedition Syndicate with a grant from the Australian National Research Council, the film was released as a 59-minute National Geographic style documentary by William Pizor's Imperial Pictures in 1931.

It was partially filmed in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Following the documentary's debut in New York City, it was re-edited by Columbia Pictures. Fifteen minutes of footage depicting the subplot of a shipwrecked white American woman married to an Aboriginal were added. Renaming the resulting docudrama The Blonde Captive, Columbia released it in 1932. Imperial Pictures re-issued the movie in 1935 and Astor Pictures re-issued it again in 1947.

Contrary to the movie's title, the woman was neither captive nor blonde and she only appears in the movie's final five minutes.

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