Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

zardoz-13 There is nothing savage about the jungle cutie that lip-stick wearing Rochelle Hudson plays in this publicity stunt of a movie. Contrived from start to finish, this adventure in the African jungle is low-budget hokum. A big game trapper, Jim Franklin (Walter Byron of "British Agent"), agrees to take an alcoholic millionaire, Arnold Stitch (Harry Myers of "City Lights") on a safari, so the latter can bring some beasts to stock a zoo on his sprawling estate. While Franklin is inclined to treat Stitch with something less than respect, Stitch's friends warn him that there is more to the man than appears. Together, Franklin and Stitch set sail for the dark continent. The British cabbie who delivers them at dockside observes that he has never been to Africa and that he wishes he could go. The next thing you know, they are unloading his cab and himself on the dock in Africa. Before the tipsy millionaire leaves America, he buys a box of white mice to find out if elephants are frightened of them. Once they arrive in Africa, Franklin introduces Myers to a cohort, Erich Vernuth (Adolph Milar of "The Perils of Pauline"), and they set out to lay traps. No sooner have they left civilization behind than they encounter the 'white goddess' (Rochelle Hudson of "Rebel Without A Cause") as she is petting animals in the jungle. She attracts the attention of Franklin and company when she releases the lion that they have trapped. The conflict starts when Vernuth gets fresh with 'the Girl,' and Franklin runs him off. The jealous Vernuth stirs up a tribe of headhunters, and they capture Franklin and tie him up to a stake. Stitch comes to his rescue, and Franklin whips Vernuth in a fair fight. Our eponymous heroine barely knows how to speak English, and she learns her first few words from Franklin. The miracle is that this babe could have survived as long as they did. She is dressed in a one-piece leopard outfit that doesn't look like it has spent a day in the sun, and her hair is immaculate. No, she doesn't look like she has spent a day, much less a lifetime in the jungle. If you're expecting a hellcat, you'll be disappointed. The only thing that 'the Girl' knows how to do is scream when she is attacked. Truly, she qualifies as a damsel-in-distress. I guess that I was expecting more from "Batman" director Harry Fraser and scenarist Brewster Morse. Sadly, "The Savage Girl" doesn't even deliver camp. Despite looking sexy in her outfit, 'the Girl' isn't an interesting character.

Leofwine_draca THE SAVAGE GIRL is an early jungle adventure outing put out in 1932 just after the advent of the talkies. It doesn't really feel as old as it is, looking and feeling more like a 1940s programmer than a film made this early. The simplistic story is little more than a gender twist variant on the old Tarzan story, with plot elements that creak from overuse.A bunch of characters decide to head into the African wilds in order to get some game for a millionaire's zoo. One of them tries to show his progressive attitudes by saying he's never killed an animal that didn't attack him first (big deal). The comic relief drunk character is a good addition to the mix.On arrival in Africa, they're confronted by endless stock wildlife scenes of leopards, chimpanzees, and elephants, and also the titular character, who randomly has a full face of make up despite never having encountered man before. Not much happens other than characters wandering around to waste time, although the titular character's appearance is quite racy for the era.

MartinHafer As long as you never take this film very seriously, it is fun--though I certainly wouldn't call this a good movie! Tarzan-like knockoff films were very popular during the 1930s and 40s as well as female Tarzan-like films. I have seen quite a few and none of them are what you'd consider great films--but they are, in some cases, entertaining. As for this particular film, it's better than some--mostly because the stock footage they use isn't grainy or full of animals from the wrong continent! You may laugh, but many of the jungle films have these problems. In addition, they really have a few real animals they use in scenes with the actors--such as leopards. I have seen a few films where NONE of the scenes involve actual animals--just crappy footage! This film from tiny poverty row studio 'Commonwealth Pictures' begins with a completely unnecessary prologue telling us that the film MIGHT just be fantasy! Say it isn't so! Anyway, an affable rich drunk decides, on a whim, to fund an expedition to Africa in order to capture live animals for his zoo as well as determine once and for all if elephants are afraid of mice! The elephant in this film is actually an Asian one--but African ones are rarely used in films because they are nasty and unpredictable. At least they didn't feature Asian tigers or kangaroos! Once in Africa, they hear about a white jungle goddess. Actually, she's a hot white lady and you never learned HOW she made it into the jungle. And, unlike Tarzan, she isn't so butch and is apparently VERY hot, as the German guy in the group is constantly wanting to rape her and later in the film the jungle lady starts making lots of sexual overtures towards the nice leader of the expedition. There's more to it than that, but not much.Overall, an entertaining and silly film with a few intended and unintended laughs. Lovers of B-movies will enjoy this and younger folks will laugh that anyone actually enjoys this sort of silliness. Harmless and dumb fun.

kidboots Rochelle Hudson was a sweet ingenue of the Madge Evans variety, whose career never really got off the ground. She started out as the good girl in "Are These Our Children" (1932) and as a sweet heroine saved from white slavery in Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" (1933). Her most prestigious roles were as Jessie in "Imitation of Life" (1934) and as Cosette in "Les Miserables" (1935) but her steadiest employment was as the voice of Honey in the very entertaining "Bosko" series.Jim Franklin (Walter Byron), a young scientist agrees to join eccentric millionaire Amos Stitch (Harry Myers, in a role he could play in his sleep) on an African safari. They are joined at the docks by a cabbie and his taxi - the cabbie has expressed a desire to Amos that he has always wanted to go to Africa and he is about to get his wish. Trouble starts soon - Jim finds a partner in Alec Bernouth, who claims there is a legendary white Goddess where they are going. Rochelle Hudson is simply stunning as "The Goddess" - there are countless scenes of her playing with cute leopard cubs and climbing trees in her scanty leopard skin jungle attire. Unbeknownst to them, she continually thwarts their efforts to hunt by releasing their captured animals by night. She is finally caught and thrown in a hut - Franklin intends to let her go but Bernouth has other ideas. After surprising him in her hut, Bernouth is banished from the expedition but starts a native uprising. Franklin is caught and faces certain death in a savage ritual. Amos saves the day by riding shotgun on his cab and now all that is left to do is to rescue the Goddess from the brutish clutches of Bernouth."The Savage Girl" was probably made to cash in on the then enormously popular film "Tarzan of the Apes"(1932). It was also an early entry in the jungle girl films later made popular by Dorothy Lamour. It did give Rochelle her first lead even though it was strictly small time.