Woman in the Jungle

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Woman in the Jungle
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Directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki
Written by Henry Koster
Based on The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham.
Starring Charlotte Ander
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
Erich Ponto
Cinematography René Guissart
Production
company
Distributed by Parufamet
Release date
  • January 8, 1931 (1931-01-08)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language German

Woman in the Jungle (German: Weib im Dschungel) is a 1931 American drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Charlotte Ander, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur and Erich Ponto. [1] It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris as the German-language version of The Letter . Such multiple-language versions were common during the early years of sound before dubbing became widespread. Like the original it was based on the 1927 play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham.

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Synopsis

In British Malaya, the wife of an owner rubber plantation takes a lover amongst the colonial elite. When he tires of her and takes up with a Chinese woman instead, she shoots him dead. She now faces an investigation.

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References

  1. Waldman p.97

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