{"id":15390,"date":"2011-01-05T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15390"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:10:24","slug":"jungle-princess-the-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15390","title":{"rendered":"Jungle Princess, The (1936)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Devils are as real to these people as leopards and pythons are to us &#8212; as real, and a lot more terrifying.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Poster.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile visiting Malaysia with his fiancee (Molly Lamont) and her father, a scientist (Ray Milland) is attacked by a tiger in the jungle, and rescued by a beautiful native girl (Dorothy Lamour) who falls in love with him.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Akim Tamiroff Films<\/li>\n<li>Cross-Cultural Romance<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy Lamour Films<\/li>\n<li>Jungles<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Native Peoples<\/li>\n<li>Ray Milland Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis innocuous tale of a native &#8220;wild child&#8221; who falls in love with the first (white) male she encounters after years of surviving on her own in the jungle is pure Hollywood fantasy all the way. There&#8217;s little in the silly narrative that&#8217;s either unique or interesting, and the &#8220;love triangle&#8221; element (between Milland, Lamour, and Lamont) is handled so tepidly that Milland&#8217;s character actually says at one point (with deadpan British politeness), &#8220;I&#8217;m terribly sorry, dear, but I&#8217;m afraid I seem to be in love with her.&#8221; This hard-to-find title is clearly included in Peary&#8217;s book simply because of its notoriety as Lamour&#8217;s breakthrough role, and she is indeed sumptuous to look at: all wide eyes and innocent giggles, with flowing brown hair and tinted skin, she would forever after be associated as the exotic, sarong-wearing love interest, most notably in the &#8220;Road To&#8230;&#8221; films with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (no less than <strong><u>five<\/u><\/strong> of which are listed in Peary&#8217;s book!). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Lamour.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Lamour.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"544\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Lamour.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Lamour-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Lamour-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Lamour-357x270.png 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The impressive opening elephant stampede sequence &#8212; but watch <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3911\"><em>Chang<\/em> (1927)<\/a> instead for an even more satisfying variation on this scene (and a much better film overall)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Elephant-Stampede.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Elephant-Stampede.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"544\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Elephant-Stampede.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Elephant-Stampede-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Jungle-Princess-Elephant-Stampede-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one is only must-see for diehard Dorothy Lamour fans. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0027830\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticmoviemusings.com\/2017\/06\/09\/jungle-princess-1936\/\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=9401E7DC143EEE3BBC4C51DFB467838D629EDE\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Devils are as real to these people as leopards and pythons are to us &#8212; as real, and a lot more terrifying.&#8221; Synopsis: While visiting Malaysia with his fiancee (Molly Lamont) and her father, a scientist (Ray Milland) is attacked by a tiger in the jungle, and rescued by a beautiful native girl (Dorothy Lamour) who falls in love with him. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Akim Tamiroff Films Cross-Cultural Romance Dorothy Lamour Films Jungles Love Triangle Native Peoples Ray&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15390\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71554,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions\/71554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}