Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A Brilliant Conflict

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

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.

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.

An African explorer is hired by an eccentric millionaire to capture animals for his new zoo. While in Africa he comes into contact with a white jungle goddess – the savage girl...This is an obvious female version of Tarzan. It's cheap and generic but, sadly, also pretty mundane. The savage girl herself really only saves some animals and then gets captured. She's not much of a white jungle goddess to tell you the truth; she's closer to a Dr. Who assistant in terms of general effectiveness. This, of course, is a great shame. Rochelle Hudson is foxy enough in an early-30's-what-do-you-expect kind of a way. The director Harry L. Fraser was also responsible for another terrible jungle adventure called The White Gorilla; so Harry had form in making sub-standard fare in this genre. Like that other movie, this one also features scenes with a man in a monkey suit. Although in the case of this movie, the ape-man only appears at the end for some brief action.In summary, even though I should know by now not to expect too much from Poverty Row movies, this one is still just too uneventful for its own good. When one of the best scenes involves a man trying to frighten an elephant with a mouse you know that you might have a problem.

The usually ultra-demure Rochelle Hudson, of all people, stars in this pleasing fantasy as a female Tarzan. She swings through the jungle on vines, her companions are animals (including, of course, a friendly chimp), and her English vocabulary is limited to four or five words. Like her male counterpart, she wears an abbreviated skin costume—and absolutely delicious she looks too! No-one will blame the rather staid hero, Walter Byron, for falling for her. (I would carry her off myself). Naturally, the heavy is smitten too and that inevitably leads to a plot complication that is not entirely unforeseen. However, help is on the way through the agency of an eccentric millionaire whose besetting vice is liquor rather than lust, so the story finally works out—via all the customary jungle thrills (which allow for a not unexpected bit of action from an over-sized ape)—just fine and dandy!From the above remarks, you may have received the impression that The Savage Girl offers little more entertainment than your average, routine Poverty Row yarn. That idea needs considerable adjustment. This effort lifts its game with some bizarre features that almost place it in the connoisseur category. The Harry Myers character is unusual in that (as with his similar characterization in Chaplin's City Lights), he is a main, indeed a key player, not just a comic drunk on the sidelines. Here, however, unlike the 1931 Chaplin-scripted millionaire, he is never sober. Never! His constant, half-sloshed, spur-of-the-moment eccentricities not only set the story in motion but give rise to several really outlandish plot devices, most notably the introduction of a London taxi-cab as a means of transportation in the African jungle! (And is it really Ted Adams, the fiendish heavy of Song of the Gringo, who plays the cabbie with such a winningly comic nonchalance?)Acting honors fall naturally to Miss Hudson, though Harry Myers, Ted Adams and "Oscar" are not far behind. All four are most appealing.Edward Kull, later to co-direct and co-photograph the 1935 New Adventures of Tarzan, has contributed the expert cinematography. Director Harry L. Fraser, who handled some real clunkers both before and since, has risen to the occasion nobly. After a slow, static beginning (doubtless designed to allow cinema latecomers to find their seats), the pace picks up a treat and it's to Fraser's credit that, despite many opportunities offered by the screenplay's weird elements, he never allows the proceedings to tip right over into a knockabout farce or even a heavy-handed spoof—though doubtless viewers who are determined to find The Savage Girl ultra-campy will do so. In any case, by the humble standards of Poverty Row, direction must be rated as "polished", and production values chalked up as remarkably lavish.