The Tiger Woman (1944 film)

Infobox Film
name =The Tiger Woman


director =Spencer Bennet
Wallace Grissell
producer =William J. O'Sullivan
writer =Royal Cole
Ronald Davidson
Basil Diskey
Jesse Duffy
Grant Nelson
Joseph Poland
starring =Linda Stirling
Allan Lane
Duncan Renaldo
George J. Lewis
LeRoy Mason
Crane Whitley
Robert Frazer
Rico De Montez
cinematography = Bud Thackery
Ernest Miller
distributor =Republic Pictures
released =1944
runtime =12 chapters (196 min)
country = USA
language =English
budget = $180,292 (negative cost: $206,191)Mathis, Jack; "Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement"; 1995; ISBN 0-9632878-1-8]
awards =
imdb_id =0037378

"The Tiger Woman" (1944) is a 12-Chapter Republic Movie Serial starring Allan Lane and Linda Stirling (her serial debut). In 1966 it was edited into the 100-minute film "Jungle Gold".

Linda Stirling is a jungle girl lost in the South American rainforest and ruling a native tribe. The serial's plot is a variant on the common serial and B-Western "Land Grab" plot - in this case, the villains attempt to run the natives off the land so that they can claim its valuable oil reserves.

Plot overview

Evil oil speculators in South America attempt to drive away a native tribe and their leader, the Tiger Woman. The Tiger Woman, a white woman, might be the lost heiress to a vast fortune, and later plotlines in the serial are built around determining her true identity.

Cast

*Linda Stirling as Tiger Woman/Rita Arnold
*Allan Lane as Allen Saunders
*Duncan Renaldo as José Delgado
*George J. Lewis as Morgan
*LeRoy Mason as Fletcher Walton
*Crane Whitley as Tom Dagget
*Robert Frazer as Ramgah, High Priest
*Rico De Montez as Tegula
*Stanley Price as Mack, Dagget's Clerk

Chapter titles

#The Temple of Terror
#Doorway to Death
#Cathedral of Carnage
#Echo of Eternity
#Two Shall Die
#Dungeon of the Doomed
#Mile-a-Minute Murder
#Passage to Peril
#Cruise to Cremation
#Target for Murder
#The House of Horror
#Triumph over Treachery

This was one of the two 12-chapter serials produced by Republic Pictures in 1944 (The other, also starring Linda Stirling, was "Zorro's Black Whip"). As was customary for Republic, two 15-chapter serials were also released in this year.

tunts & Effects

tunts

*Babe DeFreest as "Tiger Woman"/"Rita Arnold" (doubling Linda Stirling)
*Tom Steele as "Allen Saunders"/Tunnel Thug/Road Block Thug/Ambusher (doubling Allan Lane)
*Ken Terrell as "José Delgado"/"Morgan"/"Mack"/"Fletcher Walton"/Bolton/Depot Thug/Oil Truck Driver (doubling Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis, Stanley Price & LeRoy Mason)
*Eddie Parker as "Tom Dagget"/Office Thug/Depot Thug/Trooper/Travis/Oil Truck Thug (doubling Crane Whitley)
*Duke Greene as "Gentry"/Steward-Thug/Motor Boat Thug/Truck Driver/Shack Heavy/Ambusher (doubling Kenne Duncan)

pecial Effects

The special model effects were produced by Theodore Lydecker.

Production

"The Tiger Woman" was budgeted for $180,292 but the final negative cost rose to $206,191 (an increase of $25,899 or 14.4%, compared to the average, for a Republic serial, of $8,199.55 or 5.7%). This serial had the third biggest budget of the sixty-six Republic serials (exceeded only by "Captain America" (1944) at $182,623 and "The Lone Ranger Rides Again" (1939) at $193,878) although it is only the fifth most expensive in terms of the actual production cost. The other four, however, were all 15-chapters long, compared to "Tiger Woman's" 12-chapters, so this is, per chapter, the most expensive of all Republic serials.

The serial is also known as "Perils of the Darkest Jungle" and was made under the working title "The Tiger Woman of the Amazon"

Interestingly, the look of Tiger Woman's costume has nothing to do with tigers, being covered in jaguar spots instead of stripes.

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0037378|title=The Tiger Woman

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title=Republic Serial
before=Captain America (1944)
years=The Tiger Woman(1944)
after=Haunted Harbor (1944)

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