The Tiger Woman (1944 film)
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| Directed by |
Spencer Bennet Wallace Grissell |
| Produced by | William J. O'Sullivan |
| Written by |
Royal Cole Ronald Davidson Basil Diskey Jesse Duffy Grant Nelson Joseph Poland |
| Starring |
Linda Stirling Allan Lane Duncan Renaldo George J. Lewis LeRoy Mason Crane Whitley Robert Frazer Rico De Montez |
| Cinematography |
Bud Thackery Ernest Miller |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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12 chapters (196 minutes (serial) 100 minutes (TV) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $180,292 (negative cost: $206,191) |
The Tiger Woman (1944) is a 12-chapter Republic film serial starring Allan Lane and Linda Stirling (her serial debut). The serial was re-released in 1951 under the title Perils of the Darkest Jungle and, in 1966, it was edited into the 100-minute Century-66 film Jungle Gold.
Linda Stirling is a lost in the South American rainforest and ruling a native tribe. The serial's plot is a variant on the common serial and B-Western "land grab" plot - in this case, the villains attempt to run the natives off the land so that they can claim its valuable oil reserves.
Evil oil speculators in South America attempt to drive away a native tribe and their leader, the Tiger Woman. The Tiger Woman, a white woman, might be the lost heiress to a vast fortune, and later plotlines in the serial are built around determining her true identity.
The Tiger Woman was budgeted at $180,292 although the final negative cost was $206,191 (a $25,899, or 14.4%, overspend). It was the most expensive Republic serial of 1944. This serial had the third biggest budget of the sixty-six Republic serials (exceeded only by Captain America (1944) at $182,623 and The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939) at $193,878) although it is only the fifth most expensive in terms of the actual production cost. The other four, however, were all 15-chapters long, compared to Tiger Woman's 12-chapters, so this is, per chapter, the most expensive of all Republic serials.
It was filmed at Lake Sherwood, California locations between 20 January and 25 February 1944 under the working title Tiger Woman of the Amazon. The serial's production number was 1298.The Tiger Woman was Republic's attempt to create a new Pearl White with their recent discovery of Linda Stirling.
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