Tuesday 3 January 2017

104 The Jungle Captive ( 1945 )


This  was  a  low  budget  final  instalment  of  the  ape  woman  trilogy   following  on  from  Captive  Wild  Woman  and   Jungle  Woman.  None  of  the  cast  from  those  films  returns,  with  Paula  being  played  by  a  different  actress , but  the  earlier  doctors  are  referred  to  in  the  script.

This  time  round  Paula  is  revived  by  evil  Dr  ( though  the  characters  consistently  address  him  as  Mister  )  Stendahl  ( Otto  Kruger )  aided  by  the  fearsome  Moloch  who  murders  as  he  goes. Moloch  is  played  by  the  famously  ugly  actor  Rondo  Hatton  who  looked  like  an  Easter  Island  statue  come  to  life  and  he's  the  best  thing  in  the  film.  Paula  is  actually  little  more  than  a  bit  player  in  the  film  which  focuses  more  on  the  investigation  of  Moloch's  murders  and  the  peril  faced  by  Stendahl's  duped  young  assistants.

Amelita  Ward  ( as  Ann  Forester )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Amelita  had  a  brief  career  in  B  pictures  in  the  forties. She  died  in  1987  aged  64.

Vicky  Lane  ( as  Paula )

Sex : Shows  some  flesh  in  a  two  piece  dress

Death :  Dead  at  the  start  of  the  movie , revived  then  once  more  shot  down  by  the  police



Vicky  was  originally  Grace  Coghlan from  Ireland. She  had  a  negligible  film  career  which  ended  with  this  one. Her  resemblance  to  Acquanetta  was  slight. Bizarrely , her  last  acting  credit  was  an  early  episode  of  Dad's  Army !  She  died  in  1983  aged  57.



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