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Greta Vanderborn (Wanda McKay) has inherited her family fortune ... bad
thing then that she has gone lost in the jungle after a plane crash 6
years ago. However, the family attorney now offers a sizeable reward to
whoever finds her ... and now Mike (George Reeves) and Bob (Ralph Byrd),
who run a one-plane airline company and who could need the money, decide
to go look for the girl - only to soon be taken prisoners by a native
tribe after Bob has shot one of them. The witch doctor (Smoki Whitfield)
wants to kill them on the spot, but the tribe's white goddess stops them -
it's Greta of course, who grants the two friends to put off the execution
until the next full moon. There is a plan behind this, because evenn
though Greta is the tribe's white goddess, she would give everything to
return home again, and she sees a chance to do just that in the strangers,
thus devices a plan for the three of them to get to Mike and Bob's plane
and fly to safety. Then though, Bob finds out that the tribe is living on
uranium rich ground, and now he wants to shake the others and escape alone
to return, mine the region and get filthy rich. Of course, there is much
to and fro, running through jungle sets seeing stock footage of wild
animals, and in the finale, Bob and the witch doctor kill each other while
Mike and Greta make it to the plane and to safety. People who
love cheap studio-shot jungle movies will no doubt find something to like
about this one: You've got the silly plot, a woman in a brief,
unconvincing leopard fur outfit, less-than-convincing natives and
ill-fitted wildlife stock footage all rolled into one. The whole thing
doesn't really take off because Wanda McKay doesn't 100% cut it as a
jungle girl - she seems much to civilized for that - but at least Ralph
Byrd makes a good villain.
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