White Savage
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Duration Country United States | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Adventure Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 23, 1943 (1943-04-23) Cast (Princess Tahia), (Kaloe), Sabu (Orano), (Tamara), (Wong), (Sam Miller)Similar movies Your Highness , Mulan , The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , Inside Out , Cinderella , Frozen Tagline The pagan love... savage excitements... dangers untamed... of a forbidden island paradise | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
White savage
White Savage is a 1943 American Technicolor South Seas adventure film directed by Arthur Lubin starring Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu and Turhan Bey. The film was re-released by Realart in 1948 on a double-feature with the same three stars in Cobra Woman and, again in 1953, under the title White Savage Woman.
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The film is one of a subgenre of colorful "exotic" tales released by Universal during the war years; others include Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and, like the others, has a certain Technicolor camp appeal. Choreographed by Lester Horton.
Plot
Montez is the ruler of the tropical Temple Island, Thomas Gomez the villain who schemes to marry her and get hold of the gold bars lining the submerged floor of the island's temple (about which the innocent islanders remain blissfully unconcerned). Jon Hall plays a heroic shark hunter who wins the day and the heart of the princess.
Cast
Production
White Savage had been the original title for Montez's first starring vehicle, South of Tahiti (1941).
Arabian Nights had been so popular, that Universal commissioned two follow up movies to star Montez, Hall and Sabu - White Savage and Cobra Woman. Gene Lewis wrote the original script for White Savage.
Montez's costumes were considered too skimpy in some scenes requiring them to be cut.
References
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