The Savage Girl (1932)

★★★★ · Bungle in the jungle! · picfixer · 2011-08-10

On a whim, a slightly mad and continuously tanked millionaire finances an African expedition to collect animals for his backyard zoo, but they bag jungle girl Rochelle Hudson instead. (Just wait until you see what they use for bait!) The direction is stogy, the acting primitive and so is the dialog, but that doesn't stop this absurd adventure from being a hoot and a half. Tongue-in-cheek all the way, "The Savage Girl" is sixty minutes of intentional and unintentional laughs - and yes, there is a guy in a gorilla suit! So bad it's good? You Bet!! This 62 minute print is soft but relatively…

★★★ · Interesting pre-Code curio · stingrayfilms · 2013-09-17

Many thanks for posting this obscure item. Currently researching jungle girl films for an article and this was a big help. This came out months after the huge hit "Tarzan The Ape Man", which began the jungle-film craze. The rather nasty scenes with the Euro-trash near-rapist creep were strictly pre-Code. By 1934 the Hayes office would have anything racy or suggestive cut out, making this all the more interesting in terms of history. And, a pretty entertaining film overall with lots of snappy dialog and a very alluring jungle goddess.