Jungle Girl (serial)
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| Directed by |
William Witney John English |
| Produced by | Hiram S. Brown Jr |
| Written by |
Alfred Batson Ronald Davidson Norman S. Hall William Lively Joseph O'Donnell Joseph F. Poland Edgar Rice Burroughs(novel) |
| Starring |
Frances Gifford Tom Neal Trevor Bardette Gerald Mohr Eddie Acuff Frank Lackteen |
| Cinematography | Reggie Lanning |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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15 chapters (265 min) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $171,415 (negative cost: $177,404) |
Jungle Girl is a 1941 15-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial starring Frances Gifford. It was directed by William Witney and John English based on the novel Jungle Girl (1932) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the twenty-second of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic.
Dr. John Meredith, ashamed at the crime spree of his twin, Bradley, travels with his daughter, Nyoka, to Africa. There his skills as a doctor displace Shamba, the resident Witch Doctor of the Masamba. Years later, Slick Latimer and Bradley Meredith arrive looking for a local diamond mine and team up with the disgruntled Shamba. Bradley kills his brother John and takes his place. Fortunately, they also brought along Jack Stanton and Curly Rogers, who promptly join Nyoka in trying to stop the villains.
The serial was officially based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Girl novel. Nevertheless, it bore almost no resemblance to the novel, which had no character named "Nyoka" and was about an Asian princess, not a white woman living in Africa. Like many Republic adaptations, the contract to use a character called the Jungle Girl meant that showings of the serial after a set date were banned.
Filming on Jungle Girl took place between March 25 and May 9, 1941. At forty-five days this shares the title of second longest shoot for a Republic serial with Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943). The serial's production number was 1096.
The serial's production budget $171,415 but the negative cost rose to $177,404 (over budget by $5,989, or 3.5%). This was the most expensive Republic serial of 1941.
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