The only reason that Captive Wild Woman is remembered today is for being one of the training films of Edward Dmytryk. We all have to start somewhere and stuff like this is where Dmytryk learned his craft. The following year he entered A list directors with Murder My Sweet so it might have been worth it.
As a film subject for one of Svengoolie's horror fests it's perfect. For fans of camp horror films what's better than John Carradine trying to make himself a woman out of a gorilla. The mild mannered Carradine as director of an insane asylum has the perfect cover for his ghoulish experiments where an ordinary ape by planting a few human glands from a female turns into the sultry Acquanetta. Now imagine if Carradine was gay, he'd get a male gorilla and try for Tyrone Power.
Milburn Stone is in the cast as a Clyde Beatty like lion tamer and that's Beatty in long and rear projection shots. Now having seen Beatty in films all I can say is that he was a great lion tamer as an actor. Acquanetta soothes even the savagest beast around him, but she gets jealous when Stone pays more attention to Evelyn Ankers and those gorilla instincts return.
This one is so bad it's one of the biggest hoots out there. My only question is how did Bela Lugosi miss being the mad scientist?
As a film subject for one of Svengoolie's horror fests it's perfect. For fans of camp horror films what's better than John Carradine trying to make himself a woman out of a gorilla. The mild mannered Carradine as director of an insane asylum has the perfect cover for his ghoulish experiments where an ordinary ape by planting a few human glands from a female turns into the sultry Acquanetta. Now imagine if Carradine was gay, he'd get a male gorilla and try for Tyrone Power.
Milburn Stone is in the cast as a Clyde Beatty like lion tamer and that's Beatty in long and rear projection shots. Now having seen Beatty in films all I can say is that he was a great lion tamer as an actor. Acquanetta soothes even the savagest beast around him, but she gets jealous when Stone pays more attention to Evelyn Ankers and those gorilla instincts return.
This one is so bad it's one of the biggest hoots out there. My only question is how did Bela Lugosi miss being the mad scientist?