L'Atavisme qui tue

Original title: Jungle Woman

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Acquanetta, Evelyn Ankers, Lois Collier, J. Carrol Naish, and Richard Davis in L'Atavisme qui tue (1944)

Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every... Read allPaula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

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Evelyn Ankers

Beth Mason

J. Carrol Naish

Dr. Carl Fletcher

Samuel S. Hinds

Coroner

Lois Collier

Joan Fletcher

Milburn Stone

Fred Mason

Douglass Dumbrille

District Attorney

Richard Davis

Bob Whitney

Nana Bryant

Miss Gray

Pierre Watkin

Dr. Meredith

Christian Rub

George - Groundsman

Alec Craig

Caretaker

Eddie Hyans

Willie
(as Edward M. Hyans Jr.)

Tom Keene

Joe - Fingerprint Man
(as Richard Powers)

Acquanetta

Paula Dupree - the Ape Woman

Vince Barnett

Curley
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Clyde Beatty

Fred Mason (in long shots)
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Wilson Benge

Court Stenographer
(uncredited)

John Carradine

Dr. Sigmund Walters
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Contains footage of 1943's "Captive Wild Woman" that introduced the Ape Woman. Re-tells that story through court proceeding flashbacks.

Goofs
In one scene, Dr. Fletcher's daughter, Joan (Lois Collier) is sitting alone in the driver's seat of her fiance's car talking to Paula Dupree.

The scene was shot from the front, and it's obvious that there is no glass on her side of the split windshield.

Quotes
Willie: Aw, it's a gyp!

Connections
Featured in Svengoolie: Jungle Woman (2015)

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A Pretty Lazy Movie from Universal

Jungle Woman (1944)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Dr. Carl Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish) is on trial for the murder of Paula (Acquanetta) when several people are brought into testify including Beth Mason (Evelyn Ankers). Soon we are told how Paula ended up coming to the home of Dr. Fletcher and why things spun out of control.

JUNGLE WOMAN is a sequel to CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is the second of the three film series. For the most part you can't help but call this one of Universal's worst films right down there with SHE WOLF OF London. Even if you don't consider it one of the worst it's hard to defend me calling it one of their laziest films.

I say lazy because a lot of this film is just flashbacks to the first movie and this just adds a very cheap feel to the picture. One has to wonder why they needed to use the flashbacks since I'm sure most people would have already seen that movie. Or, if they were going to use flashbacks, they could have used less of them to get people caught up on the story. I would also argue that the entire courtroom scenes were boring and didn't add anything to the picture.

The most shocking thing about JUNGLE WOMAN is the fact that there's not too much footage of the ape woman. Did CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN not meet the studio's box office expectations so they went cheap here? I'm really not sure but even capable actors like Naish and Ankers just come across as boring here. Milburn Stone also returns and of course there's Acquanetta who is completely wasted here.