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Jungle Woman (1944)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Jungle Woman is a Universal Horror B-Movie that tips over into the thriller genre. It is an Immediate Sequel to Captive Wild Woman from 1943 and continues the story of the Ape Woman, who is revealed to have survived being gunned down but who also has become unhinged due to her experiences. Filming began on February 14, 1944 and the premiere followed on July 7, 1944. It is the last of the trilogy to star Acquanetta as the Ape Woman; Vicky Lane takes over for the final entry, Jungle Captive, in 1945.The film was announced in the June 23, 1943 edition of The Exhibitor and other trades at that time as Jungle Queen, which became Jungle Girl for less than a month before Jungle Woman was settled on by the time of filming. Stock Footage from the 1933 film The Big Cage (as well as the Clyde Beatty acknowledgement slide) returns to cover part of the runtime, but this time it's packaged within reused footage of Captive Wild Woman. The Captive Wild Woman segments last about ten minutes of the opening quarter and serve as both a recap and an introduction to Dr. Fletcher, who through new footage is presented as having been in the audience the night Cheela was gunned down. Contrasting with the previous film, Jungle Woman goes for suspense and in doing so takes several cues from Cat People. Aside from the overall mood, the lake scene, the chase scene, and the final scene each parallel climactic scenes in Cat People.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Dr. Carl Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish) is under investigation for the murder of Paula Dupree (Acquanetta). Reluctantly, he recalls the events leading up to it, starting with the night the gorilla Cheela (Ray Corrigan) is gunned down. Impressed with her noble character, Fletcher nurses her back to health. The gorilla escapes one night and turns back into the human Paula, which is how Fletcher and his assistant Willie (Eddie Hyans) discover her. Paula is obviously not well, so Fletcher takes her in at Crestview Sanatorium in hopes of helping her. There, she meets Bob Whitney (Richard Davis), the fiancé of Fletcher's daughter Joan (Lois Collier), and is immediately attracted to him. While Fletcher tries to solve the mystery behind Paula's identity, Paula alternately tries to kill Joan and win Bob for herself by pretending that Dr. Fletcher abuses her. Bob doesn't know what to believe, but tries to help her and keep Joan from being caught in the potential crossfire. Fletcher slowly pieces together that, fantastic as it may be, Paula and Cheela are the same being. When Willie is discovered murdered on the sanatorium grounds, Fletcher realizes that Paula is to blame and sets off with a sedative to prevent more deaths. Paula attacks him and he unintentionally kills her with an overdose. For this, he is arrested. None of the officials believe his outrageous story, but when they make one final check on Paula's corpse at the morgue, they find it in a state between human and gorilla. Because it is evidently not a human that was killed, the coroner's court holds no jurisdiction and Dr. Fletcher is free to go home.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Acquanetta's contract with Universal expired on July 16, 1944, and wasn't renewed for the next movie. By her own account, she didn't want her fame to lift up B-movies while she was rejected for A-movies. On the other hand, anecdotes and circumstances suggest that Universal's discovery that she was African-American got the door closed on her. The director this time around was Reginald LeBorg, who didn't like the script and made the decision to keep Cheela's appearance out of the film until the final scene to create some suspense. Little as he was therefore needed, make-up artist Jack Pierce once more handled the Ape Woman's makeup. | |
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This Was His True Form: Some time after overdosing, Paula's body changes from her human form to her Ape Woman form. It is like this that she's rolled out of her locker in the morgue. Once the officials see the Ape Woman, they accept Dr. Fletcher's story that Paula is a gorilla-turned-human and end the coroner's inquest on grounds that the killing of a non-human falls outside of their jurisdiction. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The film opens with Paula's and Dr. Fletcher's fight that ends in the former's death. The scene then cuts to Dr. Fletcher being investigated for murder, which leads into a long flashback of how the murder came to occur. The flashback ends with the same fight scene the film opened with and the final minutes wrap up the coroner's inquest. | |
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Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date | |
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Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date: To calm down from an earlier scare, Bob takes Joan on a romantic canoe trip on the lake underneath a clear starry sky. They flirt a little and enjoy a serene embrace, all of which comes to a sharp end when Paula drags the canoe under. | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating: Paula tries to get Bob on her side by claiming that Dr. Fletcher is violent towards her. To prove it, she bares her shoulder to show him an injury. Right at that moment, Joan walks in looking for Bob and sees her fiance standing very close to Paula, who is in a partially undressed state. Bob tries to tell her that there exists no intimicy between him and Paula, but because Joan is Dr. Fletcher's daughter he can't at this point tell her what the scene truly was about either. | |
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Clothesline Stealing | |
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Clothesline Stealing: Paula finds herself naked when she's human again after her near-death experience as a gorilla. Therefore, she steals herself a dress from the clothesline on the Crestview Sanatorium grounds. | |
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Our Werebeasts Are Different | |
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Our Werebeasts Are Different: The Ape Woman is a reverse were-gorilla: a gorilla turned into a human by science. It starts out with Cheela's permanent change to Paula due to a surgery, but as the transplanted human tissue settles she becomes able to change freely. There are three states between which she flows: the gorilla Cheela, the human Paula, and a transitional state, the Ape Woman proper, in which her silhouette is like a human but her appearance is like a gorilla. | |
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Interrogation Flashback | |
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Interrogation Flashback: The core of the film's story is a long flashback narrated by Dr. Fletcher to explain to the coroner, district attorney, and audience what happened that he ended up killing Paula. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: In response to Fred's revelation that Cheela might've been human once and turned into a gorilla by means of science, Dr. Fletcher delivers a peculiar line: "There have been many efforts made in that direction. As well as giving animals human qualities by means of various serums." Fletcher is played by J. Carrol Naish, who played Noel, a gorilla-turned-human, in Dr. Renault's Secret, which is a possible inspiration behind Captive Wild Woman and its sequels. | |
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Ankle Drag | |
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Ankle Drag: After murdering Willie, Paula drags his corpse by the ankles into the bushes to prevent people from discovering her crime. | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Some ten minutes of the sixty minutes Jungle Woman lasts is footage reused from Captive Wild Woman, which in turn contains footage recycled from the 1933 film The Big Cage. | |
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Spinning Paper | |
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Spinning Paper: After accidentally killing Paula, there's a shot of the front page of The Daily Post Telegram with the headline "Dr. Fletcher Is Held for Coroner's Inquest". The sub-headline reads "Murderer Accused of Hiding Facts". It's placed amidst articles on various subjects: "Praises Work, Makes Charges on L.R.T. Claim", "Government Cost Cuts to Be Urged", "Harbord Urges Plant Renewal", "Two Suspects Held on Fraud Charges", and "Holds Against Commutation Rate Increase". | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: While working to convince Bob that Dr. Fletcher is violent towards her, Paula catches Dr. Fletcher snooping around in her room. She follows him to his office and attacks him, but is knocked aside right before Bob comes to see his father-in-law-to-be. The scene he witnesses certainly makes Paula's accusations of Dr. Fletcher's cruelty seem truthful. | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: To win Bob's sympathy, Paula concocts a story that Dr. Fletcher is violent towards her. Bob is receptive to this because Dr. Fletcher earlier told him to stay away from Paula because she's mentally unstable, which isn't a read Bob got from her himself. Later, Paula takes a swing at Dr. Fletcher for snooping around in her room, but she is knocked aside right before Bob enters. Paula convincingly plays the victim and Bob takes her away to another doctor to get her a reliable medical check-up. The scheme falls apart when Dr. Meredith independently reaches the same conclusions as Dr. Fletcher, which restores Bob's faith in his father-in-law-to-be. | |
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Enter Stage Window | |
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Enter Stage Window: Paula continues her tactic of trying to murder her romantic rivals in their bedrooms by crawling through the window. Not that she gets far, because Joan Fletcher, who momentarily occupies a one room-cabin on the sanatorium grounds, locks her windows. The first time, Joan awakens from the attempt, spots the Ape Woman peering through the window, and screams. This alerts Bob and her father, while it chases off the Ape Woman. The second time, Joan hides in her cabin when Paula stalks her and once more Paula tries to enter through the window. She ceases when Dr. Fletcher approaches in order to hide and launch a surprise attack on him. | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang! | |
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Let's Split Up, Gang!: Bob is distracted by the arrival of Joan and her story that Paula is actually a gorilla in human form, which is why he doesn't notice that Paula does not enter the main building but hides behind some bushes. Upon hearing Joan's story, he thinks that Joan's father is in immediate danger. Joan wants to come along inside to rescue him, but Bob tells her it's safer if she returns to her cabin. Once Bob's gone into the main building, Paula goes after the lone Joan. | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye: In a moment where Joan and Paula are alone, Joan tries to initiate a conversation by looking up at the sky and talking about the stars. When she returns her gaze to Paula, the other woman is gone. During this time, she has changed to her transitional or gorilla form, of which Joan does catch a glimpse, but not enough to say for certain that her mind isn't playing tricks on her. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In Captive Wild Woman, Dr. Walters kept a journal of his experiments and was shown writing about his progress with Cheela. He stored the journal in a drawer in his desk. Dr. Fletcher purchases Crestview Sanatorium after Walters's demise and makes his office his own. He combs through all the research papers stored there and many scenes in which Fletcher comes closer to realizing that Paula is Cheela take place in the office. Yet not once is the journal brought up. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
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Abhorrent Admirer: Willie is immediately smitten with the beautiful Paula and proceeds to repeatedly force himself into her space. Paula wants nothing to do with the graceless and dimwitted man and when telling him to leave her alone doesn't work, she murders him. | |
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Partial Transformation | |
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Partial Transformation: Technically, "Ape Woman" does not refer to the whole creature, but specifically the transitional state that is neither the gorilla Cheela nor the human Paula. She was never supposed to have this form as it is one that emerges when her body gets damaged and the human tissue of the initial surgery that turned her from Cheela to Paula loses its effectiveness. That said, for a time she is able to freely change between forms. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Willie gets killed by Paula after he ignores her rejection several times and keeps following her when she tells him to leave her alone. | |
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Hazardous Water | |
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Hazardous Water: On a starry night, Joan and Bob go out for a romantic canoe ride on the lake. As they gaze at the stars, they are unaware that Paula, who is remarkably at home in the water for a gorilla in human form and who wants Bob for herself, follows them below the surface. With her strength, Paula drags the canoe down and proceeds to grab at Joan to kill her, but Bob's presence makes her retreat for the time being. | |
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Fingerprinting Air | |
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Fingerprinting Air: Dr. Fletcher acquires a clear, full fingerprint of Cheela from the lock she ripped out of the door and a clear, full fingerprint of Paula from one of her vanity bottles. A fingerprint analyst compares them and concludes that they are identical aside from their sizes, which he has no explanation for, and peculiar in that they resemble human fingerprints as much as they do anthropoid fingerprints. | |
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Afraid of Doctors | |
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Afraid of Doctors: While Paula is under examination by Dr. Meredith, he takes note that she's afraid of him and Paula admits that she's afraid of all doctors. Between the possibility that she was a human who was turned into a gorilla by one doctor, the certainty that she got painfully turned from a gorilla into a human by Dr. Walters, and the certainty that for all his good intentions Dr. Fletcher re-caged her in the very sanatorium where Walters previously hurt her and used experimental treatments to nurse her back to health, that fear is understandable. | |
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Contrasting Sequel Antagonist | |
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Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Dr. Carl Fletcher contrasts Dr. Sigmund Walters from Captive Wild Woman. Walters acquired Cheela because her intelligence made her the ideal test subject to turn an animal into a human. He did not care for her well-being, or that of the woman he obtained hormones from, and even killed another woman for her cerebrum. Fletcher is introduced when he is being investigated for the murder on Paula, initially making it look like he is just as cutthroat as Walters. Yet as the story unfolds, it's made clear that Fletcher means well and if he's to blame for anything it's that he is too soft and hesitant. | |
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Super-Strength | |
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Super Strength: Paula Dupree is a gorilla in human form and retains the strength of her gorilla self. This was only hinted at in Captive Wild Woman, but in Jungle Woman Paula folds a metal ashtray with only a squeeze and drags a canoe straight under. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The lake scene, where Bob and Joan are enjoying a romantic canoe trip, is presented from their point of view and the music is therefore idyllic. Beneath the water's surface, however, Paula is approaching like a shark preparing to strike. It's only when she does that the music takes a turn for the dramatic. | |
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People in Rubber Suits | |
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People in Rubber Suits: Cheela only appears in Jungle Woman in footage reused from Captive Wild Woman, where she is played by Ray Corrigan in one of his gorilla suits. | |
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Stargazing Scene: While out on a romantic row at the lake, Joan and Bob discuss the stars and their ties to destiny to flirt with each other. The moment is ruined when Paula drags their canoe under. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: In Captive Wild Woman, John Whipple tries to stop the cop from shooting Cheela while she's saving Fred. In Jungle Woman, Whipple is nowhere to be seen. And thus Universal would not have had to pay the actor. Beth's testimony does not reflect the events of Captive Wild Woman. Though she claims she always considered Paula off, nothing of her actions or words in the prior movie suggests so. Worse, she says that her belief that Cheela and Paula are the same being is a deduction and leaves it at that, while in Captive Wild Woman Dr. Walters told her everything about what he had done to the Ape Woman by means of Beth's sister's hormones and a donor cerebrum, which he openly intended to replace with Beth's cerebrum. Not a peep on all that in Jungle Woman. Cheela was originally introduced as a gorilla with remarkable intelligence, but still within the perimeters of gorilla intelligence. In Jungle Woman, Fred reveals that the locals in the Belgian Congo told him about a doctor who lived away from civilization in order to experiment with turning humans into animals in peace. He amends that, notwithstanding that the locals insisted that Cheela was the result of such an experiment, he was not able to verify the claims. This remark is a form of censorship, because one of the points of feedback the script received was to tone down Paula's interest in a human partner. What with her being a gorilla, that would be bestiality. Fred's story makes it possible that she's actually human and therefore there is no provable bestiality. In Captive Wild Woman, Cheela was permanently changed into Paula by means of surgery. Her strong emotions, however, destroyed the human tissue, causing her to return to being Cheela and require another surgery to be Paula once more. In Jungle Woman, Cheela resumes being Paula despite never receiving a second surgery. She can also switch between her two selves freely now. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Retreading her situation with Fred Mason and Beth Colman from Captive Wild Woman, Paula becomes smitten with Bob Whitney, who already is deeply in love with and engaged to Joan Fletcher. Marginally complicating the triangle is Willie's one-sided attraction to Paula. After ignoring her rejections one too many times, Paula murders him and then sets her sights on eliminating Joan and winning Bob's sympathy. Neither works out. | |
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Jungle Princess | |
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Jungle Princess: The possibility is brought up that the gorilla Cheela, who has been turned into the human Paula Dupree by means of hormone and cerebrum transplants, actually started life as a human and was turned into a gorilla by an undisclosed scientific experiment. All the same, even as the human Paula Dupree she has the strength of a gorilla. In human form, she is a skilled swimmer and over time has picked up some capacity for human speech. Her playground this time around is the Crestview Sanatorium, which grounds contain a lot of vegetation. With Fred no longer in the picture, Paula's romantic interest shifts to the American Bob Whitney, who does not return her feelings. | |
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Demoted to Extra: Beth Colman and Fred Mason are the leading characters in Captive Wild Woman. In Jungle Woman, they attend the coroner's inquest into Fletcher's murder of Paula, which amounts to a scene each that combined take about five minutes. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Fred and Beth have gotten married in the months since the events of Captive Wild Woman and form a solid couple. | |
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On the Rebound | |
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On the Rebound: Paula's immediate interest in Bob to the point that she starts sobbing when he's no more enthusiastic about her than awkwardly polite comes across as her still struggling with Fred's rejection despite all that she did for him. | |
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Religious Horror | |
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Religious Horror: Unique to Jungle Woman in the trilogy are a handful of Christianity-themed remarks about Paula's nature. The groundskeeper George compares Cheela's onslaught in the chicken coop to the landscape of Gehenna. The fingerprint analyst's choice of adjective for Paula-Cheela's fingerprints is "unholy". And the movie ends with the faux biblical prophecy that "The evil that man hath wrought shall in the end destroy itself." | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: Cheela was pronounced dead in Captive Wild Woman, but in Jungle Woman Dr. Fletcher took the body with him out of fascination for the heroic ape, only to discover faint respiration. He spent a good time thereafter ensuring that Cheela would make a full recovery. | |
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Gasp! | |
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Gasp!: When the district attorney states that, given the evidence, it is a fact that Dr. Fletcher killed Paula, Joan gasps loudly and grabs her chair's armrests for support. It cues the audience in that Dr. Fletcher is dear to her shortly before establishing that he is her father. | |
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Shadow Discretion Shot | |
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Shadow Discretion Shot: As Dr. Fletcher walks around the Crestview Sanatorium with a sedative to stop Paula before she can hurt anyone else, Paula strikes first and with the intent to kill. Paula's attack and the struggle that follows in which Fletcher successfully administers the sedative, which turns out to be too high a dose for Paula to survive, are shown exclusively through shadows on the wall of a nearby building. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: Paula goes from not uttering a word to speaking, but her words come out with little to no inflection at all. She is a gorilla, after all, and is only just getting used to human speech. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Cheela saved Fred's life, only to be abandoned by him and returned to Crestview Sanatorium in the care of another doctor who's free to experiment on her. Dr. Fletcher acquired Cheela's presumed corpse because he witnessed her giving her life to save Fred Mason. Intrigued by her intellect and noble deed, he wanted the body for research, but when he discovered that Cheela was still alive, he nursed her back to health instead. Cheela escapes and goes missing, but a girl named Paula does show up on the sanatorium grounds. Fletcher takes her in when he notices that she's psychologically unwell. It takes some time before he realizes that Paula and Cheela are the same being, that she killed Willie and several chickens, and that she also wants him and his daughter dead. Feeling responsible for bringing a monster under his roof, Dr. Fletcher goes after Paula himself and ends up having to explain Paula's death at a coroner's inquest. | |
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Killer Gorilla | |
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Killer Gorilla: The possibility is brought up that the gorilla Cheela, who has been turned into the human Paula Dupree by means of hormone and cerebrum transplants, actually started life as a human and was turned into a gorilla by an undisclosed scientific experiment. Originally, the change was permanent, though damage to the human tissue could undo it, requiring another operation to bring back Paula. Possibly by simply getting the time to heal, the Ape Woman has become able to change freely. She enjoys the strength of a gorilla in all of her forms, but can only talk and supposedly swim in her human form. Morally, Paula retains her animalistic lack of a true conscience and on top of that is seemingly traumatized after her near-death experience. She goes on to kill Willie, who won't leave her alone otherwise, several chickens, and attempts to murder both Fletchers out of romantic jealousy and self-preservation. | |
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You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You | |
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You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: Dr. Fletcher does not try to defend himself during the coroner's inquest and admits to being responsible for Paula's death without any ifs or buts. The reason for this is that he knows that no one will believe his story about a gorilla-turned-human, so it's easier to just accept fate as it's coming at him. On encouragement from the district attorney, the coroner, and his daughter, he eventually relays the full story and is proven right: no one believes him. It is only due to Paula's corpse having reverted to her Ape Woman form that the charges against Fletcher are dropped. | |
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Flashback Within a Flashback | |
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Flashback Within a Flashback: Fred's testimony consists of a flashback to when he visited Dr. Fletcher in his office. In the flashback, the conversation turns to the disappearance of Cheela and the appearance of Paula in Captive Wild Woman, which is all presented as a flashback. In one smooth mini-monologue, Fred goes from summarizing the events of Captive Wild Woman to Dr. Fletcher to ending his testimony about what he knows of Paula to the coroner and district attorney. | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: Jungle Woman does have a woman, but not a jungle. The Crestview Sanatorium grounds do have a luxurious amount of vegetation, of course without any notable animals hiding within, but only four scenes or so take place there. By far most of the movie and its plot take place indoors. | |
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Non-Malicious Monster | |
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Non-Malicious Monster: Even with the tacked-on possibility that the Ape Woman was born a human and not a gorilla, her mental faculties are constrained by her gorilla self. And being a gorilla, Paula does not act on malice, but on immediate emotions. There may also be trauma at play in some of her actions, as she repeatedly asks Bob to take her away and admits that she's not fond of doctors, referring to Dr. Walters' abuse in Captive Wild Woman, possibly the doctor that originally made her a gorilla, and waking up after a near-death experience in the care of Dr. Fletcher in the very lab where Walters' tormented her can't have done her psychological stability any good either. | |
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