White Savage
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Realart rerelease film poster
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| Directed by | Arthur Lubin |
| Produced by | George Waggner |
| Written by |
Richard Brooks (writer) Peter Milne (story) |
| Music by | Frank Skinner |
| Edited by | Russell F. Schoengarth |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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76 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.4 million (US rentals) |
White Savage is a 1943 American Technicolor adventure film with Film Noir elements featuring Maria Montez, Jon Hall, and Sabu. The film was re-released by Realart in 1948 on a double-feature with the same three stars in Cobra Woman and, again in 1953, under the title White Savage Woman.
The film is one of a subgenre of colorful "exotic" tales released by Universal during the war years; others include Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and, like the others, has a certain Technicolor camp appeal.
Montez is the ruler of the tropical Temple Island, Thomas Gomez the villain scheming to marry her and get hold of the gold bars lining the submerged floor of the island's temple (about which the innocent islanders remain blissfully unconcerned), and Jon Hall the heroic shark hunter who wins the day and the heart of the princess.
White Savage had been the original title for Montez's first starring vehicle, South of Tahiti (1941).
Arabian Nights had been so popular, that Universal commissioned two follow up movies to star Montez, Hall and Sabu - White Savage and Cobra Woman. Gene Lewis wrote the original script for White Savage.
Montez's costumes were considered too skimpy in some scenes requiring them to be cut.
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