Directed by edward dmytryk starring acquanetta, john carradine, evelyn ankers and milburn stone. The scientist then turns the ape into a beautiful woman acquanetta who gest jealous of the trainer s girlfriend evelyn ankers and soon turns into a part apepart woman. Evelyn ankers sci fi films, horror films, evelyn ankers. The banal egotism of humanity over other creatures. Captive wild woman 1943 edward dmytryk, john carradine. When he discovers an unusually intelligent gorilla ray corrigan brought to this country by explorerlion tamer fred mason milburn stone, doc on gunsmoke, he has it kidnapped and. Milburne stone gunsmoke plays the former and has a strong, charismatic presence on screen.
The trouble begins when she falls in love with the hunter. Captive wild woman can perhaps best be compared to murders in the zoo, and not only because of these films captive animals backdrop. A mad scientist transplants human glands into a gorilla, turning the ape into a beautiful young woman acquanetta. Captive wild woman, evelyn ankers, 1943 by everett classic actresses. Legendre was dressed in the khaki uniform of the womens army. At least half of captive wild woman 1943 incorporates lively circus action from. Captive wild woman is another hard to find gem that i tracked down on youtube. This beauty played an uncredited margareta vazecs daughteralong side ilona massey as baroness elsa frankenstein and the marvelous older beauty maria ouspenskaya as maleva the gypsy. Find great deals on ebay for captive wild woman and jungle captive. The 1943 film made the mysterious acquanetta an overnight star, and garnered two sequels, despite the fact that one third of the movie is reused footage from an old liontaming film.
Universal made two sequels to captive wild woman, jungle woman in 1944 and jungle captive in 1945 see entries below. A mad scientist is on the prowl and, after he does a brain transplant into a giant gorilla, the results are predictably disastrous. Captive wild woman, the first of the three ape woman films from universal, is easily the strongest of the three films, despite the following factors mitigating against it. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing captive wild woman near you. Captive wild woman universal 1943 classic monsters.
Movie and tv subtitles in multiple languages, thousands of translated subtitles uploaded daily. More crucially, it came only six months after cat people 1942, which featured simone simon as a woman who is fearful she might turn into a black panther at the thought of sex. Captive wild woman 1943 fantastic movie musings and. Watch captive wild woman online stream full movie directv.
Free download from source, api support, millions of users. Captive wild woman 1943 06041943 us horror, science fiction 1h 1m user score. Captive wild woman was released on the 4th of june, 1943. A mad doctor john carradine turns an animal trainers milburn stone ape into paula the apewoman acquanetta.
Walters transforms the ape into a woman by using gland tissue extractions from dorothy and then nurse strand fay helm. Captive wild woman 1943 is a scifi horror film starring evelyn ankers, john carradine, milburn stone, and featuring acquanetta. Overview full credits full synopsis notes music screenplay info. In a guest of the reich, his gripping account of legendres captivity. Captive wild woman 1943 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to.
Sigmund walters john carradine is a scientist involved in gland research. The picture was released by universal pictures and was directed by edward dmytryk. If captive wild woman is much better than its hoary synopsis would suggest, and it actually is, much of the credit must go to a game cast and the usual good work by ace makeup artist jack p. At least half of captive wild woman 1943 incorporates lively circus action from clyde beattys the big cage 1933. Captive wild woman 1943 is a horror, scifi movie starring acquanetta and john carradine. I never finished writing about our canada trip, entitled to eastern canada and back part 1, covering niagra falls. Then she played heroine dorothy coleman in captive wild woman 1943 and miss mclean in the mummys ghost 1944. Captive wild woman 1943 lifeless universal horror film has an animal trainer bring back a large ape from africa only to have a mad scientist john carradine kidnap it. However, a severe emotional jolt soon reverts her back into her primitive self with disastrous consequences. Captive wild woman by edward dmytryk edward dmytryk. Captive wild woman manufactured on demand on movies unlimited. Captive wild woman, dvd, manufactured on demand, horrormonsters, 025192262838. Marriage to the heir to the russian throne is far from a picnic for his lovely german bride.
The movie was really an excuse to film anilmal trainer and circus performer clyde beatty. Weird woman captive wild woman harvard film archive. Dont worry, youre not alone the ape woman is the most obscure of the universal monsters despite the fact she. Captive wild woman was made not long after universals the wolf man 1941 in which lon chaney, jr became a werewolf. A jungle prince stands against a maharajahs plan to capture and sell wild animals. A mad scientist turns an ape into a beautiful but deadly woman, who then turns into a killer over her unrequited love for an animal trainer. Back from safari where hed captured numerous lions and tigers and a very smart female gorilla, milburn stone wrangles his way into a. Notes about captive wild woman, 1943, directed by edward dmytryk, with john carradine, evelyn ankers, milburn stone, available from turner classic movies. Captive wild woman runs for about 1 hour and just about of the screen time is man vs lion. Captive wild woman 1943 universal pictures scifi horror film with evelyn. Shed always rebelled against the strictures of high society, preferring the wild outdoors to balls and. Captive wild woman is a 1943 film about a scientist who puts the brain of a gorilla into the body of a woman directed by edward dmytryk.
Universals captive wild woman was released on the 4th of june, 1943, some eighteen months later than planned produced by ben pivar and directed by edward dmytryk, the screenplay was penned by ted fithian, neil p varnick, griffin jay and henry sucher, and took the studio out on a limb it had not previously chanced, introducing some of its most erotic themes, such as female vivisection and. Walters decides to use the ape for his latest experiment and has the recently fired drunken abusive animal handler for the circus, gruen paul fix, steal the ape and then has the ape strangle gruen to death. Actress acquanetta with an actor in an ape costume in a publicity. Watch captive wild woman starring john carradine in this horror on directv. An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular. Captive wild woman 1943 is a scifi horror film, starring john carradine, milburn stone, evelyn ankers, and acquanetta. I havent been idle on le internet, ive simply been working on other things, such as art and more art and i started a blog on that process as well and it is here. Edward dmytryk directs john carradine and aquanetta in this loopy tale. With evelyn ankers, john carradine, acquanetta, milburn stone, martha vickers, lloyd corrigan. At long last, the post no one has asked for but is getting anyway. In this lowbudget horror outing an insane researcher manages to create a terrifying creature that is half orangutan and half woman. Captive wild woman 1943 12 out of 4 the setting for this universal horror movie is a circus where a group of animals have just landed and they are trying to be whipped into where they can perform on a stage. With john carradine, evelyn ankers, milburn stone, lloyd corrigan. Intertwining the doctors increasingly dangerous experiments with the perilous work of the animal trainer taming vicious lions reusing footage from universals 1933 circus picture the big tent, captive wild woman channeled the fad for sexualized jungle exotica into a.
Produced by ben pivar, captive wild woman was directed by edward dmytryk for universal. Before his bestknown film noir and his controversially brief turn as one of the blacklisted hollywood ten, edward dmytryk was an editorturneddirector steadily working his way across different studios bunits. Problematics abound in universals 1943 picture, captive wild woman. Refreshingly bonkers universal programmer introduces acquanettas ape woman with the most shameless use of stock footage since the mummys tomb. An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human. Contentsshow plot the film begins with animal trainer fred mason milburn stone.
Captive wild woman 1943 directed by edward dmytryk. Sigmund walters carradine is a renowned endocrinologist, an expert in the field of glandular studies. Captive wild woman 1943 posted on march 20, 2016 by lyzmadness. Movies like the devils candy movies like rosemarys baby movies like dead awake movies like the thing movies like upgrade strangest of sights. Pierce even if the makeup could suggest a nefarious and ludicrous link between negroes and simians, an interpretation much discussed when the film. Captive wild woman universal pictures 1943 its time to check out this little weirdie from universal, released during wwii, its all about a mad scientist who transplants human glands into a female gorilla which turns the ape into a beautiful young woman. This is the theme of captive wild woman that tells the parallel and often intersecting tales of fred mason a wild animal trainer and dr.
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