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Richard Valley	Presenting Paula Dupree	Lead	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 11 01 1:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN. JUNGLE WOMAN. JUNGLE WOMAN. Even the titles lack imagination, but these three adventures of Paula Dupree the Ape Woman have their occasional misguided defenders. In a non-anatomical sense, where do YOU stand on the Ape Woman . . .?
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len2476buster	Re: Presenting Paula Dupree	#1	[-]
Posts: 7251 Mar 11 01 2:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm not in the habit of standing on ANY women, Rich! I'm probably much too heavy! As far as "Paula Dupree" goes, well the actresses who played her were not bad looking - when the character was human, that is - but in the "thespian" department, well, I've seen better emoting! The cast and production values are nice, but the rest of it is something Monogram might even take issue with! To sum it up, quite briefly, I quote Richard Deacon as "Mel Cooley" from THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: "Yyyyyyiiiiicccccccckkkkhhhhh!" Mr. Len
MarkDClark	Um, Rich...	#2	[-]
Posts: 4501 Mar 11 01 4:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN, JUNGLE WOMAN and JUNGLE CAPTIVE, not CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN, JUNGLE WOMAN and JUNGLE WOMAN! The titles weren't quite THAT repetitive! The second entry in this series (JUNGLE WOMAN) truly is dreadful. But the first and third installments, while not great films or even good films, are fun little time-killers. Fun in the same way that the Lugosi Monograms and Zucco PRCs are fun. Loopy, harmless little entertainments. Carradine gives a particularly zesty performance in CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN, and Otto Kruger crews the scenery with gleeful abandon in JUNGLE CAPTIVE. I count both of these films, along with THE SPIDER WOMAN STRIKES BACK and THE BRUTE MAN, among the bad 40s Universals I can't help but enjoy, despite their many limitations.
Richard Valley	Re: Um, Rich...	#3	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 11 01 4:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You sure, Mark? I could swear one of 'em was called WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN . . .
Unregistered(d)	Re: Um, Rich...	#4	[-]
Posts: 0 Mar 11 01 5:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	They're campy and their kooky, unmysterious and yet fun to watch, still yet! Love Camp!
Ken Hanke	Re: Um, Rich...	#5	[-]
Posts: 71348 Mar 12 01 12:53 AM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Carradine is okay in CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and JUNGLE CAPTIVE is redeemed a bit by Messrs. Kruger and Hatton, but all in all...I find the whole series too drab to be much fun.
Richard Valley	Re: Um, Rich...	#6	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 12 01 1:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, they're rather like Mame Dennis' puberty, aren't they . . .?
Ken Hanke	Re: Um, Rich...	#7	[-]
Posts: 71348 Mar 12 01 2:21 PM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thought that was bleak, but it fits as well.
Richard Valley	Re: Um, Rich...	#8	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 12 01 3:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Why can't we just say it RAINED in Buffalo the day I was born . . .?
Unregistered(d)	Re: Um, Rich...	#9	[-]
Posts: 0 Mar 13 01 10:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Or can't we just say, "NIAGARA FALLS"...?
Ken Hanke	Re: Um, Rich...	#10	[-]
Posts: 71348 Mar 14 01 3:30 AM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It does? Well, let it.
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Kevin	lousy movies, but	#11	[-]
Posts: 1488 Mar 16 01 7:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Ape Girl movies are all pretty bad, especially the one with J. Carrol Naish. I do think, however, that the actual Ape Girl makeup is one of Pierce's most unsung creations. Very convincing. As I've said elsewhere, Paula looks more like an ape than Hull or Chaney look like wolves. She's also more impressive looking than the test footage of James Brolin and Edward G. Robinson for Planet of the Apes.
Ken Hanke	Re: lousy movies, but	#12	[-]
Posts: 71348 Mar 16 01 11:55 PM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'd agree that the make-up ain't bad, but I would counter that Hull isn't supposed to look like a wolf. The script is very clear on the werewolf as "a satanic creature with the worst qualities" of both man and wolf.
Richard Valley	Re: lousy movies, but	#13	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 16 01 11:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>The script is very clear on the werewolf as "a satanic creature with the worst qualities" of both man and wolf.<< Smokes indoors and pees in order to lay claim to his territory, eh . . .?
Unregistered(d)	Re: lousy movies, but	#14	[-]
Posts: 0 Mar 24 01 8:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I rather like the first one, a model "B" actually. The leads all give fine performances and the film features John Carradine and Evelyn Ankers doing what they do best. The second offers an extremely campy performance by Acquanetta. And I love the seen where Paula stalks Dr. Fletcher's daughter. JUNGLE CAPTIVE I recall as being the worst of the three. However, it's been many years since I've seen it.
Unregistered(d)	THE MYSTERIOUS VICKI LANE	#15	[-]
Posts: 0 Mar 25 01 11:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Who knows anything about Paula Dupree #2? Greg Mank stated she was only 18 when she played the part. Another source states she was at one time married to Tom Neal, tough guy actor of such cult favorites as BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT, BEHIND THE RISING SUN, DETOUR and THE FIRST YANK IN TOKYO. Mr. Neal was arrested for killing his wife (not Vicki Lane) in 1965. He was released in 1971 and died the following year.
Richard Valley	Re: lousy movies, but	#16	[-]
Posts: 54081 Mar 26 01 12:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>The second offers an extremely campy performance by Acquanetta.<< Honestly, I rather think Acquanetta's performance is too--how you say, nonexistent to be campy. And also honestly, having seen John Carradine in STAGECOACH, THE HURRICANE, and THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I can't say CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN is what he does best . . .
Unregistered(d)	Re: THE MYSTERIOUS VICKI LANE	#17	[-]
Posts: 0 Apr 10 01 11:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I only know of one other film appearance of Vicky Lane (also from 1945), THE CISCO KID RETURNS. If the horror fans don't know anything about her, what about the B-western fans?
Ken Hanke	Re: THE MYSTERIOUS VICKI LANE	#18	[-]
Posts: 71348 Apr 11 01 1:58 AM Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I answered this question somewhere on these boards, having slightly known Vicki Lane late in her life in Lake Wales, Florida, by which time she was pretty much given over to drink and collecting exotic birds. I met her a few times because we frequented the same pet shop. Last I knew, she had an...well, episode and I believe she went away for awhile. I lost track after that, and that would have been 1978 or 79 at the latest.
Richard Valley	Re-Presenting Paula Dupree	#19	[-]
Posts: 54081 Oct 30 01 2:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No one's had a word to say about poor Paula for over half a year! What do our relatively new members think of this trilogy from Universal? And if you're not a new member but haven't weighed in, we'd like to hear from you, too . . .
David Morrill	Re: Re-Presenting Paula Dupree	#20	[-]
Posts: 15215 Oct 30 01 4:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, all I can say is -- it's a good thing Milburn Stone was a little fellow.
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