Thursday, December 24, 2020

The Savage Girl (1932)

After Tarzan comes... the Savage Girl, a wild white girl in the jungle with perfect flowing locks and a very stylish off the shoulder leopard skin dress! Stitch (Harry Myers), an alcoholic millionaire, hires explorer Jim Franklin (Walter Byron) to take him to Africa to get some animals for a zoo he wants to impress his neighbours. Once they reach Africa they hire Adolf Milar (Alec Bernouth) to take them into the bush...


As well as lions and gorillas they soon discover a white girl (Rochelle Hudson) who lives feral in the jungle and is friends with the animals, especially the chimps. When the hunters capture animals she releases them. So they decide to capture her. Afterwards though Franklin gets sweet on her and thinks they should let her go. However, Milar has other ideas. We never find out if the wild girl is wearing pants, but if she is, Milar wants to get into them...

A very silly and ridiculous film with incredibly dated stereotypes but is pretty amusing and charming. It is basically Tarzan as a girl but can be enjoyed in it's own right.