Blonde Savage is a 1947 American adventure film directed by Steve Sekely and written by Gordon Bache. The film stars Leif Erickson, Gale Sherwood, Veda Ann Borg, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank Jenks, and Matt Willis.
Diamond mine owner Mark Harper hires pilot Steve Blake and his pal Hoppy Owens to search for a hidden jungle village from which the natives have made trouble for his mine operations. They crash near the village and discover that Meelah, a white girl brought up by the natives after her parents had been killed for their property by Harper, is the head of the village. Returning to the mine, Harper, already suspicious of what they may have learned and jealous of the attention his wife, Connie Harper, is paying to Steve, has them jailed, while he leads an expedition against the village and Meelah.
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: Blake is in the lawyer's office, watching to see if Harper leaves the police station and planning to shoot him if he does. Harper exits the station, and there is shot and he falls over. The lawyer looks at Blake and the remarks that Blake didn't shoot. Blake is equally confused as to what just happened, but when they get outside they learn that Harper had been attempting to escape and had been shot by the Inspector from inside.
- Blow Gun: Tonga uses a blowgun to deliver a *Twang* Hello to Harper and Berger by firing a dart into the tree beside Berger's head. Realizing they are not alone, they panic and run.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Berger has no compunctions about murdering Joe and Mary Comstock on Harper's orders, but he balks at the idea of shooting their one-year old daughter.
- Evil Colonialist: Mark Harper who runs his diamond mine as her own personal fiefdom, and attempt to exterminate a native village to eradicate possible evidence of a 20 year old crime.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Hoppy is non-too-pleased to discover he is eating snake meat in the village.
- In the Back: When Berger attempts to flee the native village, Meelah kills by throwing a knife into his back.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Berger attempts to beat the location of the native village out of Blake. Blake does not divulge a thing.
- Jungle Princess: Meelah is a blonde woman who was Raised by Natives after her parents were murdered by Harper and who is now head of the village.
- Ladykiller in Love: Steve Blake describes himself as being the 'kiss and run type', but he falls immediately in love with "the blonde package of TNT" that is the Jungle Princess Meelah.
- New Old Flame: When Steve Blake arrives at Mark Harper's diamond mine, he discovers that Harper's wife Connie is a former girlfriend of his whom he has not seen in five years.Connie immediately starts making a play for the handsome Blake as her ticket out of the jungle.
- Torture Never Works: Berger delivers a savage beating to Blake who refuses to divulge any details of the native village.
- *Twang* Hello: After the plane makes a forced landing in the jungle, Hoppy is searching his pockets for a match when Tonga throws a spear into the tree behind his head. Later, a flashback shows that he scared off Harper and Berger after they murdered the Comstocks by shooting a Blow Gun dart into the tree by Berger's head.
