Captive Girl

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Captive Girl
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Italian film poster
Directed by William Berke
Written by Carroll Young
(written for the screen by)
Based on Jungle Jim
1934-1954 comic strip
by Don Moore and Alex Raymond
Produced by Sam Katzman
Starring Johnny Weissmuller
Cinematography Ira H. Morgan
Edited by Henry Batista
Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Production
company
The Katzman Company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
  • April 27, 1950 (1950-04-27)(premiere)
  • July 1950 (1950-07)(United States)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Captive Girl is the fourth Jungle Jim film produced by Columbia Pictures. Directed by William Berke, it stars Johnny Weissmuller as the title character. [1] [2] The film is also Weissmuller's second teaming with Buster Crabbe after Swamp Fire (1946). [3] Captive Girl is the only feature-film appearance of Anita Lhoest, a swimming champion and cellist. [4]

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Plot

Jungle Jim is summoned to a mission in a different jungle area. He is to escort Chief Mahala, returning after studying in the West, to regain the leadership of his tribe. His second mission is to investigate a mysterious blonde witch who has a pet tiger. It is believed that the witch is actually Joan Martindale, the child of a long-missing couple. In his absence, Chief Mahala's leadership has been usurped by the evil witch doctor Hakim, who seeks to kill the witch.

Hakim keeps his power by making sacrifices of prisoners bound in gold chains and jewels who are thrown into the Lagoon of the Dead. These victims included the Martindales, with Hakim seeking Joan to prevent her testifying against him after Mahala gains control of the tribe. Using scuba gear, Barton seeks to gather the gold and jewels of the drowned victims for himself.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Captive Girl". www.geostan.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  2. ↑ CAPTIVE GIRL Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 17, Iss. 193, (Jan 1, 1950): 171.
  3. ↑ Johnny Weissmuller: Olympics to Tarzan Behlmer, Rudy. Films in Review; New York Vol. 47, Iss. 7-8, (Jul/Aug 1996): 20.
  4. ↑ "Anita Lhoest - Captive Girl - 1950". 27 September 2016.


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