Liane, die Weisse Sklavin

Jungle Girl and the Slaver
Liane la Schiava Bianca / Nature Girl and the Slaver

West Germany / Italy 1957
produced by
Helmuth Volmer for Arca Filmproduktion/Arca Cinematografica
directed by Hermann Leitner
starring Marion Michael, Adrian Hoven, Friedrich Joloff, Rik Battaglia, Lei Ilima, Jean Pierre Faye, Rolf von Nauckhoff, Marisa Merlini, Saro Urzì, Nerio Bernardi, Ed Tracy, Rainer Penkert
screenplay by Ernst von Salomon, based on an idea by Thomas Fough and a novel by Anne Day-Helveg, music by Erwin Halletz

Liane

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Actually, Frank (Adrian Hoven) is just supposed to fly jungle girl Liane (Marion Michael) to her boyfriend Thoren (from Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald), but on the way there - and still on the plane - she helps Frazer (Friedrich Joloff), a tied-up white slaver about to be delivered to the gallows, to free himself out of pity ... and as a thank you he forces the airplane to land in the middle of nowhere and takes Liane as his slave he eventually plans to marry to get his hands on her family fortune.

Somehow Frank manages to help Liane escape, but Frazer recaptures her and leaves Frank lieing in the desert to die. Of course, Frank is found by the beduines and brought to the next hospital, though.

Meanwhile, Frazer has met up with his old business associate Ibrahim (Rik Battaglia), and Ibrahim decides he wants Liane for himself and just takes her from Frazer ... but Liane makes an escape and manages to make it to the next city, which is coincidently the same city Frank lies in hospital in - but unfortunately he doesn't any longer but has checked out to go look for Liane, so it's up to Ibrahim's men to capture her once more.

Pretty upset about the way Ibrahim treated him, Frazer switches sides and teams up with Frank - and in virtually no time they are on Ibrahim's trail and after a chase and a shoot-out both Ibrahim and Frazer are killed while Frank and Liane are re-united.

Lei Ilima and Jean Pierre Faye play Liane's personal maid and bodyguard respectively but do little more than portray a number of atrocious black stereotypes ...

The first Liane film, Liane, das Mädchen aus dem Urwald, was by no means a great film, but it was an enjoyable and at times even sexy jungle romp. Part two however is just bad - and not just because Marion Michael doesn't display her naked breast anymore. Actually, the problems with the film are with pretty much every aspect of the screenplay: The dialogue is often incredibly blatant, the big number of racial stereotypes is simply annoying, the story is a total mess and seems to change direction ever so often only to lead to nowhere, the whole Liane-character that made the first movie interesting is turned into a clichéd and incredibly naive damsel-in-distress, and many of the situations in the film are just so dumb in their context (like when Liane who has never been in a city takes a tramway to the hospital) that they totally fail to work. That none of the actors is really convincing and the direction is totally flat doesn't help the film one bit either ...

Don't watch it.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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