At one point, the waterfall is falling backwards.
When the girl (Joan) is whistling for her tiger, her lips don't move.
A busy Jungle Jim film including lost treasure hunters (that is the treasure is lost), a lost mysterious girl, a crazy witch doctor coveting someone else's kingship and topped off with a protective tiger and a massed monkey attack. So an undemanding typical film in the genre.
This is a funny movie that is completely unbelievable. Had I seen this movie in the early fifties, I would have believed it is realistic.
When Johnny Weissmuller started getting too old to play Tarzan, he put on some khakis and returned to the African wilds as Jungle Jim. The Tarzan films allowed Weissmuller to disguise the fact that he wasn't all the great of an actor, since Tarzan only spoke in broken English, but with him now being required to deliver normal dialogue reveals him as a painfully wooden actor..
I enjoy a good pulp adventure story with an exotic setting, but it's been a long time since I've seen one as silly as this.The sets are ultra-silly to begin with: other than yonder copse of trees, the background is largely devoid of vegetation, which is awfully strange for the jungle deep in darkest Africa.
If you watch enough of the Jungle Jim movies, you'll realize that the stories all follow a pretty standard formula, just as Charles Starrett's Durango Kid films did in the Western genre. Which is OK on the one hand because they're entertaining in their way, but it also makes them highly forgettable once a couple of days have passed by.
What girl no matter her age can resist anything that has both Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabb in it? Just seeing Johnny Weissmuller in anything is reward enough.
Swimming champions Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe duel it out in Captive Girl part of Weissmuller's Jungle Jim series. Crabbe was in better shape however because we get to see him stripped down where Weissmuller even in his swimming scenes is clothed.
Captive Girl (1950) * 1/2 (out of 4) Johnny Weissmuller is back as Jungle Jim and this time he's trying to locate an evil white woman roaming the jungles. She actually turns out to be a good guy but the real bad people are a tribal witch doctor (John Dehner) and a fortune hunter (Buster Crabbe) seeking gold.
***SPOILERS***Campy but entertaining Jungle Jim, Johnny Weissmuller, flick that really has two things in it that keeps it from sinking into the "Lagoon of the Dead": The watery grave in the movie that the local natives preform human sacrifices for their Gods. First there's the strikingly beautiful jungle girl Joan Martindale played by California swimming champ Anita Lhoest and last but not least the films final sequence.
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