An African explorer is hired by an eccentric millionaire to capture animals for his new zoo. While in Africa he comes into contact with a white jungle goddess – the savage girl...
This is an obvious female version of Tarzan. It's cheap and generic but, sadly, also pretty mundane. The savage girl herself really only saves some animals and then gets captured. She's not much of a white jungle goddess to tell you the truth; she's closer to a Dr. Who assistant in terms of general effectiveness. This, of course, is a great shame. Rochelle Hudson is foxy enough in an early-30's-what-do-you-expect kind of a way. The director Harry L. Fraser was also responsible for another terrible jungle adventure called The White Gorilla; so Harry had form in making sub-standard fare in this genre. Like that other movie, this one also features scenes with a man in a monkey suit. Although in the case of this movie, the ape-man only appears at the end for some brief action.
In summary, even though I should know by now not to expect too much from Poverty Row movies, this one is still just too uneventful for its own good. When one of the best scenes involves a man trying to frighten an elephant with a mouse you know that you might have a problem.
