Liane, Jungle Goddess

Original title: Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald

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Marion Michael in Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956)

When Liane, a lost girl worshiped by an African tribe, is returned to her native Hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tug-of-war over her grandfather's inheritan... Read allWhen Liane, a lost girl worshiped by an African tribe, is returned to her native Hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tug-of-war over her grandfather's inheritance.When Liane, a lost girl worshiped by an African tribe, is returned to her native Hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tug-of-war over her grandfather's inheritance.

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Trivia
Her title role marked the film debut of Marion Michael.

Goofs
When Thoren is photographing African wild life, he is seen making a video of a toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). They only exist in South America.

Quotes
Tibor Teleky: These drums are gonna drive me off my nut.

Alternate versions
Differences between the German version and the English-dubbed version include completely different takes of the same set-ups in the sequence where we first see Liane (for instance, in the dubbed version Liane enters with the lion cub in her arms, which she then puts on the ground, while in the German she instead has a shadow covering her, which she then walks out from), as well as sometimes more, sometimes less shots of Liane (the German version for instance includes a couple of shots with considerably more visible breasts in the sequence where Liane is caught).

Connections
Edited into Liane, die Tochter des Dschungels (1961)

Soundtracks
Liane
Composed and Performed by Erwin Halletz Und Sein Orchester

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5/10

When I say that it's a jungle out there, you believe me!

It's clear that this movie's target audience is 14-year-old boys. "Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald" ("Liane, Jungle Goddess" in English) has little purpose beyond showing off Marion Michael's body, especially the upper half. And boy is there something to show off! I understand that Marion Michael was known as Germany's answer to Brigitte Bardot. As expected, the movie got treated as an adults-only movie upon its initial release (although you can bet money that a number of boys went to see it and it helped them become men).

Obviously the movie has a colonial mentality in its depiction of the Africans. That's to be expected. We can understand that and simply luxuriate in all the shots of Marion Michael swinging from the vines wearing as little as was allowed.