Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Jungle Woman (1944)


Universal Pictures
Directed by Reginald LeBorg
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Universal)

J. Carrol Naish is a mild mannered doctor accused of murdering a patient at his sanatorium. In flashback, he tells the story of a mysterious young woman who came to him from a circus. She has a strange hypnotic power over animals, and occasionally turns into an ape-woman that murders one of the other patients. We never see any transformation and it is left unexplained. Instead, we get melodrama involving the doctor's daughter and her fiance, between whom the ape girl has caused jealous bickering.

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