BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

bkoganbing I've often wondered when in old Hollywood jungle pictures were made what they used for language. The major studios might have actually tried to use real African languages. For an outfit like PRC I'm sure no such care was taken.Gale Sherwood's lovely soprano was used in Blonde Savage for some kind of tribal ceremony. She's the white girl princess taken in by a native pride who witnessed her parents being murdered. Now that same murderer Douglass Dumbrille has hired Leif Erickson and Frank Jenks to the location of a native village that has been giving his diamond mine workers problems. Of course we know his ulterior motives.Some stock jungle footage is used. But it's a backlot product and everybody knows it. The white princess among the natives is also getting old as plot gimmick. Maybe she should have met Mr.&Mrs. Tarzan and started making a play for Boy.I'll bet Gale Sherwood was promised a musical if she did this one. As always Veda Ann Borg as Dumbrille's wife always is good.She got this film an extra star from me.

mark.waltz In a performance consisting mostly of grunts and one word sentences, blonde bombshell Gale Sherwood finds her Jungle hunk when diamond hunter Leif Erickson (no relation to the famous explorer) locates her after his plane crashes in the middle of her kingdom. He learns that his ruthless employer (Douglas Dumbrille) killed her American parents in front of her when she was a child, leaving her in the jungle to be raised by the natives. Erickson fights to have Dumbrille charged for the ancient crime, and gets help from Dumbrille's floozy wife (Veda Ann Borg) who is obviously in lust with Erickson.This leads to the potential of cat-fights between Borg and Sherwood and lots of acting in getting the guilty party the justice he deserves. Silly, melodramatic and cheaply made, this is still an enjoyable campy experience, perfect for 1940's Saturday matinée audiences needing an escape after the end of the war, and today, it is still good for a few laughs. Borg gets the best lines, Dumbrille is as sinister as ever, and Frank Jenks provides some corny comedy.

zardoz-13 This dull, low-budget, black & white Poverty Row potboiler set in untamed Hollywood studio replicas of the Dark Continent pits a happy-go-lucky aviator against a murderous millionaire diamond mine owner. The contrived and predictable plot concerns a double-murder in the past and the sensational subject matter of a white woman who serves as a princess for an African tribe. You know that you are in trouble when the footage of a water buffalo tangling with a python wrapped around its neck is more exciting than any of the shenanigans in the story. The performances are pretty solid with Leif Erickson relishing the role of the hero while dismissing the idea that he could be a hero. Douglass Dumbrille makes a first-rate villain, and his crisp dialogue delivery and body language make him appear quite sinister.Penniless pilot Steve Blake (Leif Erickson of "Invaders from Mars") and his co-pilot Hoppy Owens (Frank Jenks of "Christmas in Connecticut") hear about a flying job that pays $25-hundred dollars. Mine owner Mark Harper (Douglass Dumbrille of "World for Ransom") hires them to find a village and a tribe that has been a thorn in his side. Blake smells something fishy in Harper's request. Harper explained that he doesn't want to start a war with the local tribes. Instead, he wants to make peace with them. Nevertheless, Blake suspects Harper's motives particularly because a man of Harper's prominence could whistle up government troops. When Blake and Hoppy arrive at Harper's house, they notice that armed guards patrol the estate. No sooner has the red-blooded Blake shown up than he encounters an old flame, Connie (Veda Ann Borg of "Mildred Pierce") that once he ran around with five years ago. Connie is married now to Mark Harper. She hates her new life, cooped up in an estate in the middle of nowhere with nowhere for her to go and spend money. Harper is a jealous man and he doesn't trust Connie. Our heroes fly out the next morning, but they develop engine trouble and have to set down. No sooner are they back on the ground than they are surrounded by spear wielding warriors with bones in their noses and suspicion in their eyes. The biggest surprise in store for our heroes in the blonde goddess named Meelah who leads the small native tribe. Gale Sherwood plays the eponymous heroine. She was saved from murderous whites by a tribesman. Since her rescue, she has grown up in the jungle, somewhat like Tarzan. During the three weeks that Blake and Hoppy spend with Meelah, Blake teaches Meelah and Tonga (Ernest Whitman of "Congo Maisie") some rudimentary English, enough to facilitate interpersonal communication. Eventually, Tonga and Meelah show Blake a locket with Meelah's deceased mother and father and a diary that contains background information about the Comstock family. Joe Comstock (John Dehner of "The Left Handed Gun") owned the mine and needed an engineer. He hired Harper and Harper hired Berger (Matt Willis of "The Mysterious Doctor") as his right-hand man. Comstock, his wife Mary (Cay Forrester of "Queen of the Amazons"), and their young daughter were camping out in the wild on an expedition to the mine. Harper orders Berger to kill both parents in cold blood. When Blake and Hoppy return three weeks later, Harper is doubly suspicious. Indeed, he gets the drop of Blake when Meelah breaks into Harper's house. Meelah jealously tries to stab Connie. Blake helps Meelah escape by disarming one of Harper's guards. Harper surprises them and disarms Blake. Harper has Berger give Blake and a thorough beating with the fists to persuade him to reveal the whereabouts of the native village. Hoppy cannot stand to watch as Blake is pummeled by the sadistic Berger. Hoppy points out on the map where the village is located. Harper turns our heroes over to one of his trusted guards, Stony (Art Foster of "The Verdict"), and they lock them up in a jail cell underneath Harper's house. Harper and Berger launch an expedition to attack Meelah's village. Meanwhile, Connie and Harper has patched up their relationship. Nevertheless, Connie decides to help Blake escape. She slips them a knife and shoves Stone against the jail bars. Our heroes escape, crank up the plane and fly out to warn Meelah. Initially, Meelah wants nothing to do with Blake after she catches lover boy in Connie's arms. Paul Bache penned the original story and screenplay and must have been inspired by the legendary Edgar Rice Burroughs character Tarzan because the heroine and her parents strive to survive in the jungle. "Revenge of the Zombies" director Steve Seeley depicts the confrontational elements of the story in flashbacks among scenes set in a barrister's office. This is about as sophisticated as this lackluster yarn gets and feminist scholars will come away with nothing worthy of documentation from this harmless little frolic. The barrister's office is across the street from the police station. Blake rushes in at lunch and confronts the barrister and tells his tale of woe. He claims that he is ready to kill Harper if Harper is turned loose. The Alpha DVD is pretty rugged, with excerpts from dialogue missing.

winner55 Low budget, formulaic - and lots of fun, especially for the 'camp' fans. Unlike a lot of 'camp' film 'classics,' there's nothing offensive about this one, which may explain its low rating, as camp fans sometimes demand the tasteless and forget what entertainment used to be about.It's not stupid, its just a light working class Tarzan-type pic with humor, '40s style knockabout action, a good guy finding redemption in the arms of a beautiful and innocent young woman, a nasty villain, and babes. The 'natives' are not treated with any racist derision, by the way, which makes the whole outing harmless fun 'for the whole family.' Defintitely the type of film you would like to see on late night TV just before hitting the sack.