5/10
"She's no lady. She's a singer!
8 April 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Singer Nona Brooks gets caught up in a murder at a nightclub in Rhodesia and flees into the jungle, re-encountering Larry Mason. Mason is a shy paleontologist looking for the "'missing link" accompanied by his gentleman's gentleman Jeff (from Brooklyn) and some native bearers. Nona is pursued by some Nazi agents seeking to stir up a rebellion against the British as she accidentally possesses a document that will lay bare their machinations. The police are also in pursuit.

It's a typical low budget wartime jungle tale; walking round the same studio forest, stock footage of exotic animals, the sound of drumming in the background, an actor in a gorilla suit, lots of jabbering natives, wily Germans and heroic Americans. Not even Mantan Moreland, Arline Judge and Arthur O'Connell can bring life to the stilted and unoriginal story. And what the actually law of the jungle being invoked was, it was difficult to say.

Arline Judge does have a lovely voice though with a pleasing Barbara Stanwyck kind of timbre. I noted she married and divorced eight husbands in her life. I hope they appreciated her appealing voice at the very least.
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