The Jungle Captive (1945) / Z-View
The Jungle Captive (1945)
Director: Harold Young
Screenplay: Dwight V. Babcock and M. Coates Webster
Stars: Otto Kruger, Vicky Lane, Amelita Ward and Rondo Hatton
The Pitch: “Isn’t it time to make another Ape Woman movie?”
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The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
The third in the Paula DuPree, Ape Woman trilogy. Seems there were a lot of mad scientist doctors back in the 40’s and their life goal was to turn a gorilla into a woman. Pretty sick, huh?
In this outing Dr. Stendahl (Kruger) has his minion, Molach the Brute (Hatton) steal the Ape Woman’s body from the morgue. Of course Molach isn’t called the Brute because of his brainpower and he kills the morgue attendant in the process. This puts the cops on the trail of the murderer.
Once Stendahl has the body, he’s ready to perform his experiment to bring her back to life. Of course he needs the blood of a woman. Naturally he decides to kidnap and use the blood of his female lab assistant (Ward) rather than a woman with no connections to him.
As the cops close in on him, Stendahl must face off against Molach (who has fallen in love with the lab assistant), the lab assistant’s fiance, the cops and the Ape Woman. It’s like the Mexican standoff at the end of Reservoir Dogs if the Reservoir Dogs standoff wasn’t suspenseful.
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