zardoz-13 There is nothing savage about the jungle cutie that lip-stick wearing Rochelle Hudson plays in this publicity stunt of a movie. Contrived from start to finish, this adventure in the African jungle is low-budget hokum. A big game trapper, Jim Franklin (Walter Byron of "British Agent"), agrees to take an alcoholic millionaire, Arnold Stitch (Harry Myers of "City Lights") on a safari, so the latter can bring some beasts to stock a zoo on his sprawling estate. While Franklin is inclined to treat Stitch with something less than respect, Stitch's friends warn him that there is more to the man than appears. Together, Franklin and Stitch set sail for the dark continent. The British cabbie who delivers them at dockside observes that he has never been to Africa and that he wishes he could go. The next thing you know, they are unloading his cab and himself on the dock in Africa. Before the tipsy millionaire leaves America, he buys a box of white mice to find out if elephants are frightened of them. Once they arrive in Africa, Franklin introduces Myers to a cohort, Erich Vernuth (Adolph Milar of "The Perils of Pauline"), and they set out to lay traps. No sooner have they left civilization behind than they encounter the 'white goddess' (Rochelle Hudson of "Rebel Without A Cause") as she is petting animals in the jungle. She attracts the attention of Franklin and company when she releases the lion that they have trapped. The conflict starts when Vernuth gets fresh with 'the Girl,' and Franklin runs him off. The jealous Vernuth stirs up a tribe of headhunters, and they capture Franklin and tie him up to a stake. Stitch comes to his rescue, and Franklin whips Vernuth in a fair fight. Our eponymous heroine barely knows how to speak English, and she learns her first few words from Franklin. The miracle is that this babe could have survived as long as they did. She is dressed in a one-piece leopard outfit that doesn't look like it has spent a day in the sun, and her hair is immaculate. No, she doesn't look like she has spent a day, much less a lifetime in the jungle. If you're expecting a hellcat, you'll be disappointed. The only thing that 'the Girl' knows how to do is scream when she is attacked. Truly, she qualifies as a damsel-in-distress. I guess that I was expecting more from "Batman" director Harry Fraser and scenarist Brewster Morse. Sadly, "The Savage Girl" doesn't even deliver camp. Despite looking sexy in her outfit, 'the Girl' isn't an interesting character.

blumdeluxe "The Savage Girl" tells us the story of a rich man financing an expedition into the African jungle to hunt down animals for his future zoo. During this trip, the men are confronted with a white jungle goddess and start to fight over her.The movie is all in all quite boring. There is no real climax or anything and what happens is already very foreseeable from the very beginning. We have a shining hero, an innocent but handsome wild woman and a barbaric antagonist. We have a bunch of the stereotypes that are typical for this period and we have a goddess that manages to wear make-up despite growing up under wild animals somewhere in the jungle. It is no secret that she probably is also supposed to be of erotic value, too. Unfortunately, all this doesn't really add up in the end and what remains is barely more than the idea of a female Tarzan. Though I appreciate that the movie praises respectful behaviour towards women in a way, it is a bit odd how the female protagonist is not curious but rather begging for physical contact.All in all this is one of the movies that didn't hold the test of time. You won't miss it if you didn't see it but you can, of course, come to a different conclusion if you're very interested in this kind of stories.

kidboots Rochelle Hudson was a sweet ingenue of the Madge Evans variety, whose career never really got off the ground. She started out as the good girl in "Are These Our Children" (1932) and as a sweet heroine saved from white slavery in Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" (1933). Her most prestigious roles were as Jessie in "Imitation of Life" (1934) and as Cosette in "Les Miserables" (1935) but her steadiest employment was as the voice of Honey in the very entertaining "Bosko" series.Jim Franklin (Walter Byron), a young scientist agrees to join eccentric millionaire Amos Stitch (Harry Myers, in a role he could play in his sleep) on an African safari. They are joined at the docks by a cabbie and his taxi - the cabbie has expressed a desire to Amos that he has always wanted to go to Africa and he is about to get his wish. Trouble starts soon - Jim finds a partner in Alec Bernouth, who claims there is a legendary white Goddess where they are going. Rochelle Hudson is simply stunning as "The Goddess" - there are countless scenes of her playing with cute leopard cubs and climbing trees in her scanty leopard skin jungle attire. Unbeknownst to them, she continually thwarts their efforts to hunt by releasing their captured animals by night. She is finally caught and thrown in a hut - Franklin intends to let her go but Bernouth has other ideas. After surprising him in her hut, Bernouth is banished from the expedition but starts a native uprising. Franklin is caught and faces certain death in a savage ritual. Amos saves the day by riding shotgun on his cab and now all that is left to do is to rescue the Goddess from the brutish clutches of Bernouth."The Savage Girl" was probably made to cash in on the then enormously popular film "Tarzan of the Apes"(1932). It was also an early entry in the jungle girl films later made popular by Dorothy Lamour. It did give Rochelle her first lead even though it was strictly small time.

Gary Imhoff African explorer Jim Franklin is hired by perpetual drunkard and eccentric millionaire Amos P. Stitch on a whim, to capture animals to stock a private zoo on his Westchester estate. On the way to Africa they pick up a London cabbie and his cab to drive Stitch on the safari, and in Africa they hire Alex Bernouth, a German jungle guide, and Oscar, a Harlemite who wants to get back to New York.Their expedition is observed by The White Goddess, a white jungle girl who warns the animals against being captured and releases the animals they do capture. They catch her by luring her with a shiny object -- a hand mirror -- and the expected complications ensue. Meanwhile, Stitch conducts an experiment with an imported white mouse to see whether elephants in the wild are really afraid of mice.Low-budget writer, director, and producer Harry L. Fraser worked on a number of similar jungle, gorilla, and white-orphans-raised-by-animals pictures from the 1920's through the 1940's, but none of the others had Rochelle Hudson swinging from vines. This may have been a cut-rate, opposite-sex version of Tarzan the Ape Man, which was made the same year, but it's fun on its own terms.