The Tiger Woman (1944)

Directors:

Spencer Gordon Bennet
Wallace Grissell

Writers:

Royal K. Cole (original screenplay) and
Ronald Davidson (original screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 May 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Thriller

Tagline:

BARBARIC THRILLS! Primitive pulse-pounding excitement! Savage combat with native warriors! Hair-raising encounters with man-eating beasts!

Plot:

Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home...

Plot Keywords:

Jungle | Fire Extinguisher | Lost City | Action Heroine | Heiress

Cast

Allan Lane	...	Allen Saunders
Linda Stirling	...	Tiger Woman / Rita Arnold
Duncan Renaldo	...	José Delgado
George J. Lewis	...	Morgan
LeRoy Mason	...	Fletcher Walton
Crane Whitley	...	Tom Dagget
Robert Frazer	...	Ramgah, High Priest
Rico De Montez	...	Tegula
Stanley Price	...	Mack, Dagget's Clerk
Nolan Leary	...	Captain Scott [Ch. 9]
Kenne Duncan	...	Henchman Gentry [Chs. 7, 11]
Tom Steele	...	Tunnel Thug [Chs. 3-4] / Road Block Thug [Ch. 7] / Ambusher [Ch. 12]
Duke Green	...	Steward-Thug [Ch. 1] / Motor Boat Thug [Chs. 4-5] / Truck Driver [Chs. 6-8] / Shack Heavy [Ch. 10] / Ambusher [Ch. 12] (as Duke Greene)
Eddie Parker	...	Henchman Blair [Ch. 1] / Office Thug [Ch. 3] / Depot Thug [Chs. 4-5 - 9] / Trooper [Ch. 7-8] / Travis - Thug [Ch. 10] / Oil Truck Thug [Ch. 11]
Ken Terrell	...	Bolton, Thug [Ch. 1] / Depot Thug [Ch. 4, 9] / Oil Truck Driver [Ch. 11]

Also Known As:

Perils of the Darkest Jungle (USA) (reissue title)
The Tiger Woman of the Amazon (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

196 min (12 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:(Banned)

Filming Locations:

Lake Elsinore, California, USA

Company:

Republic Pictures

Movie Connections:

Edited into Jungle Gold (1966) (TV)

Common guys... Get in touch with reality!

Tiger... leopard..., who the heck really cares!!! The important remaining fact is that this serial was supposed to be for us, just kids, who don't make a fuss about feline taxonomy, furry expertise or stuff like that. And, of course, it remains what's really relevant: emotion, suspense, romance, perils of all kind, (which is about the same), explosives, dangerous natives, not so native villains, the White Goddess always walking the thin line or hanging from a thin rope and the semper fidelis hero always available to rescue her, or the other way around, exactly as it should be in real or surreal life. I'm still a kid at 67 and I might never forget those white knuckles matinées back in a small sort of barn as a movie house in an even smaller little village down in the countryside in Chile, South America.

Don't waste us time with silly elemental technical comments... Leave them for Matrix unloaded, uploaded or reloaded.

I just saw on these pages the Tiger Woman photo which will always be the White Goddess for me. Better than that: La Diosa Blanca. It took me back more than 50 years in a nanosecond.

What else should you expect from a movie serial?