Her Jungle Love (1938)

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a ... See full summary »

Director:

George Archainbaud

Writers:

Gerald Geraghty (story), Curt Siodmak (story),

Stars:

Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Lynne Overman

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Dorothy Lamour	...	Tura
Ray Milland	...	Bob Mitchell
Lynne Overman	...	Jimmy Wallace
J. Carrol Naish	...	Kuasa
Virginia Vale	...	Eleanor Martin (as Dorothy Howe)
Jonathan Hale	...	J.C. Martin
Archie Twitchell	...	Roy Atkins
Edward Earle	...	Capt. Avery
Sonny Chorre	...	Guard
Tony Urchel	...	Guard
Richard Denning	...	Pilot
Phil Warren	...	Pilot (as Philip Warren)

Storyline

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a make-shift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter, who is Tura. He had set her up as a goddess but she must now pay for befriending the hated white men by being sacrificed to the crocodiles in an underground temple. An earthquake rocks the island and destroys Kuasa and his band. Bob, Jimmy and Tura find a party of rescuers waiting on the beach, headed by aviation company president J.C. Martin and his daughter Eleanor, Bob's fiancée. It soon ...

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Plot Keywords:

island | goddess | underground | crocodile | aviator | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Music | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 April 1938 (USA)

Also Known As:

Toura, déesse de la jungle

Filming Locations:

Palm Canyon, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

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Connections

Featured in The Love Goddesses (1965)

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Soundtracks

"LOVELIGHT IN THE STARLIGHT"
Written by Ralph Freed and Friedrich Hollaender
Performed by Dorothy Lamour

User Reviews

The Sarong Girl does it again!

How well I remember first seeing this movie over 60 years ago, and the climatic scene of the volcanic eruption and the crocodile invasion has stuck with me ever since. It was Dorothy Lamour's third movie in which she spends all her time in a sarong, and does it very well - the second time they put Ray Milland with her also!. The story is fairly hackneyed, but the film looks great in Technicolor, and the visual effects for 1938 are quite good. I enjoyed the principals, along with the supporting cast of Lynne Overman (who apparently had to be in every epic produced by Paramount) , and J. Carrol Naish as the required villain who kidnapped Dorothy as a child, and of course, gets his come-uppance in a spectacular way. A good way to spend and hour and a half, but cannot be taken seriously.