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3 | ''Jungle Goddess'' is a 1948 movie directed by Creator/LewisDCollins and starring Creator/GeorgeReeves, Wanda [=McKay=] and Ralph Byrd. |
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5 | Down-on-their-luck pilots Mike and Bob are hired to track down Greta Vanderhorn, a millionnaire's heiress daughter, whose plane went down in [[DarkestAfrica the central African jungle]] some years prior. Upon arriving in the jungle, the two are immediately captured by natives (with [[AxCrazy gun-crazy]] Bob killing one in the process) and brought before their leader Mata Greta... the very heiress they were sent to find. |
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7 | Turns out the natives, upon finding Greta in the jungle after her plane crash, instantly began to [[MistakenForGods worship her as a goddess]], apparently just because of [[MightyWhitey the color of her skin]]. She insists that Bob and Mike would have been treated similarly had Bob not murdered; but, while Bob the "white devil" awaits execution at the hands of the natives, Mike and Greta work up a plan to get the three of them back to civilization. But between the usual dangers in the jungle and the natives' ever-decreasing opinion of "Mata" Greta, escape won't be so easy... |
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9 | Not to be confused with the 1956 movie ''Film/LianeJungleGoddess''. |
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11 | For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E03JungleGoddess here]]''. |
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15 | !!This film provides examples of: |
16 | * AmbiguousCriminalHistory: When Mike and Bob are imprisoned in the hut in the native village, Bob remarks that he's been in less comfortable jails than this. (In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' riffing, Crow replies "That's nothing to be proud of!".) |
17 | * AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Olonga and his pseudo-African gibberish yelling. |
18 | * DarkestAfrica |
19 | * TheDitz: Good Lord, ''Wanama!'' |
20 | * DoubleStandard: When the male leads show up to "save" Greta the first thing they do is shoot dead an unarmed tribesman. Greta [[WhatTheHellHero calls the guys out for what they've done]], causing the men to express honest confusion over why she or they should care about an African being killed. ([[WhatMeasureIsANonCute What measure is a non-white]], apparently.) At the end, when a native kills Bob with a spear, Mike shoots him even though it appears Bob's all they wanted, and even though Bob was in fact trying to escape his own execution and the spear incident was justified. |
21 | * FurBikini: Greta wears a fetching leopard skin halter top and miniskirt ensemble, with a matching leopard skin cape for those chilly evenings. |
22 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Wanama tells Bob (the villain) that he's "very nice"... right after he insulted her by calling her "dumb" (she was never taught the word "dumb", so she assumed it was a synonym for "smart"). She wises up, though. |
23 | * {{Jerkass}}: The AxCrazy (or, in his case, ''Gun''-Crazy) Bob. |
24 | * JunglePrincess: Greta, the titular Jungle Goddess. |
25 | ** Subverted a bit by the fact that she hasn't really fully "Gone Native" and wants to be rescued. She does become best friends with Wanama, though. |
26 | * MightyWhitey: The "Africans" in the movie actually ''worship'' white people, for '''absolutely no reason''' aside from the mention they'd never seen a blonde chick before.[[note]]In fairness, there ''are'' historical examples of Europeans being mistaken for supernatural beings (Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was thought to be a healer), but not always thought to be benevolent beings.[[/note]] |
27 | * MisplacedWildlife: In ''this'' African jungle, there are ''cougars'' (from the Americas) & ''orangutans'' (from Borneo). |
28 | * MistakenForGods: The African tribe assume the fair-haired Greta is a goddess, and [[GodGuise she plays along]] (presumably out of fear for what might happen if she doesn't). By the time Mike and Bob find her , the natives (spearheaded by the witch doctor) seem to be just starting to have doubts about her. |
29 | * NoIndoorVoice: The witch-doctor Olonga, a hefty walking stereotype whose only lines consist of busting in and yelling some gibberish ''really loud'' several times. |
30 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Greta is Dutch (born and raised in the Netherlands, but attending university in the United States), but you'd never know it from listening to her speak. |
31 | * SanitySlippage: It's implied that Bob suffers this, through a combination of fear of the natives and paranoia over Mike and Greta spending so much time alone together, jumping to the conclusion that they're colluding to escape without him. |
32 | * TokenEvilTeamMate: Bob is the villain but starts out as simply Mike's snarky, less virtuous friend, fellow pilot & companion. |
33 | * TrailersAlwaysLie: The movie poster makes the movie look WAY more exciting than it really is. Greta is not a "Temptress" or "Ruler of Thousands" and most of the flick is people sitting around talking with a couple of fistfights thrown in. |
34 | * TriggerHappy: Bob, whose reaction to anything unexpected is to shoot it. This includes him shooting a coconut dropped by a [[MisplacedWildlife very lost orangutan]]. |
35 | * YouNoTakeCandle: The "Africans" who speak English (played by a Mexican actress & a Filipino actor). Everyone else are actual black people who speak gibberish. |
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