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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ASF-Land's Jungle Cruise! Our boat will leave the dock as soon as you're all comfortably seated.

All set, folks? Good! And off we go!

During our riverboat adventure we'll be passing scenes from some of Hollywood's exciting jungle movies. You'll see some really frightening jungle beast . . . but not the kind they have in the zoo, no sir!

In fact, coming up on your right we can glimpse a tense moment through that window in the secret jungle laboratory' where Otto Kruger is experimenting on his poor Jungle Captive!





My goodness, I hate to think what kind of things are going on in there.

As we come around the bend in the river, folks, we might be lucky enough to catch a glimpse another of the doctor's strange experiments from the sequel to that movie, called Jungle Woman.

You'll have to look closely, folks, because even though the doctor's second creation looks exactly like a beautiful women, her amazing "natural camouflage" makes her very hard to spot in her native environment.

Ah-ha! There she is! Almost invisible among the jungle foliage!





And now, ladies and gentlemen, we reach the most exciting and dangerous part of our Jungle Cruise. We're entering the region which is inhabited by the hideous creatures from the Island of Lost Souls!

These abominations are so dangerous that we have to keep them in cages along the riverbank so that you folks will be safe from any . . .

Oh my God! There's a creature on the left bank, and he's breaking out of his cage! Hang on tight folks and we'll try to speed up to get past him!





Whew! That was sure close, but we're safe now. However, you never know what's gong to happen on ASF-Land's Jungle Cruise!

Please collect your belongings, and watch your head and step as you exit the boat. We hope you'll have a wonderful day here on the Magic Message Board!
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Jungle Captive (1944)

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A new cast is used in this sequel to "Jungle Woman", which in turn was a sequel to "Captive Wild Woman".

This time Vicki Lane is the Ape Woman brought back to life by scientist Otto Kruger (formerly played by John Carradine in the first film, J. Carrol Naish in second).

Kruger's assistant is played by Rondo Hatton (the actor whose face was horribly deformed by a disease known as acromegaly). Hatton is best known as "The Creeper", a homicidal maniac in 1946's "House of Horrors". Otto Kruger's long career included "The Colossus of New York" in 1958. Directed by Harold Young.
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Jungle Woman (1944)

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Acquanetta repeats her role from "Captive Wild Woman" as the gorilla turned into a gorgeous girl by scientist J. Carrol Naish (played by John Carradine in the first film). Milburn Stone (Doc from "Gunsmoke") returns as the animal trainer who loves the gorilla-girl.

Evelyn Ankers co-stars. Director Reginald LeBorg reused several scenes from the original. The gorilla-girl is killed (again), but she's revived (again) in the third film, "Jungle Captive" (with a whole new cast).

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Island of Lost Souls (1932)




A winner in every way. Charles Laughton creates one of the screens creepiest villains, Dr. Moreau — a smirking ego-maniac who gleefully sets himself up as God on a remote island where he carries out horrible experiments that turn animals into deformed humanoids. Bela Lugosi plays the Sayer of the Law, the leader of the animal people.

After a nation-wide search for an actress with a distinctly bizarre kind of beauty, nineteen-year-old Kathleen Burke was cast in the part of Lota, a "girl" which Moreau creates by surgically and biologically altering a panther. Richard Arlen is the shipwrecked sailor with whom Lota is intended to mate.

Director Erle C. Kenton and cinematographer Karl Struss use the film's slightly hazy photography to excellent advantage, creating weird visions of a nightmare world where monsters walk upright and speak in the tongues of men.

The sets are bizarre and surrealistic. The climax, which takes place in the evil doctor's surgical "House of Pain" includes no gory scenes (naturally), but the audience is so totally aware of the terrible things which are happening there that it leaves them literally shuddering with horror.

No wonder it was banned in England for several years following its release! The screenplay was written by Waldemar Young and Philip Wylie.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)