Untamed Mistress (1956 film)

Untamed Mistress is an American film directed by Ron Ormond and starring Jacqueline Fontaine, Allan Nixon, Cliff Taylor, Byron Keith, and Carol Varga.[1][2][3][4]

Untamed Mistress
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Directed byRon Ormond, Allan Nixon
Written byOrville H. Hampton, Ron Ormond, Paul Leslie Peil
Produced byJune Carr, Ron Ormond
StarringJacqueline Fontaine, Allan Nixon, Cliff Taylor, Byron Keith, Carol Varga, Don C. Harvey, Jack Reitzen, Nelson Leigh, F.E. Miller, James Adamson
CinematographyAlan Stensvold
Edited byIgo Kantor, Hugh Winn
Music byWalter Greene
Production
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Distributed bySinister Cinema, Joseph Brenner Associates, Nashville Cinema Partners
Release date
  • June 17, 1953 (1953-06-17)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Deep in the Indian jungles, two gentlemen are searching for a beautiful woman, Velda, who was kidnapped by a group of bloodthirsty gorillas. Eventually, they finally find her, but the gorillas are determined to keep the woman within their tribe.

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Critical response

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Writing in AllMovie, critic Robert Firsching described the film as "jungle exploitation" that "consists of real and staged documentary footage, all the better to display numerous topless native women (many of them clearly American) and 'thrilling' wild animal scenes," that "a great deal of the footage was taken from other films," and "there are many people jumping around in gorilla costumes."[5]

See also

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  • Ingagi (1930 exploitation film with similar premise)

References

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  1. ^ "Untamed Mistress (1956)". Letterboxd. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Untamed Mistress (1956)". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  3. ^ Butters, Gerald R. (2007). Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-8262-6603-3. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  4. ^ Weiner, Robert G.; Cline, John (17 July 2010). Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins. Scarecrow Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-8108-7657-6. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  5. ^ Firsching, Robert. "Untamed Mistress (1957)". AllMovie. Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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