Very best movie i ever watch

Fresh and Exciting

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Captive Wild Woman (1943)** 1/2 (out of 4)The setting for this Universal horror movie is a circus where a group of animals have just landed and they are trying to be whipped into where they can perform on a stage. Dr. Walters (John Carradine) takes a liking to a female gorilla that shows signs of intelligence. He ends up stealing the gorilla and transforms her into Paula (Acquanette) who in human form still has signs of an animal.The "Paula the Ape Woman" series certainly wasn't one of the best from Universal. During the opening title credits there's a big thank you to Clyde Beatty who was able to help with the various animal stunts in the film and this is where the movie goes wrong. These stunts are certainly wonderfully entertaining but they also add a rather cheap feel to the picture because of the obvious doubles that are used when the characters are in cages with the animals.I'd also argue that there's way too much footage of the animals because it eats away at the really short sixty-minute running time. In fact, I'd argue it eats up so much of the running time that the Paula story really become a subplot, which is too bad because it works as a female version of the Wolf Man character. The film does a pretty good job at building up sympathy for the Paula character and especially during one scene where her hearts get broken. The transformation scene was also quite good and the look at the ape woman was a winner.CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN also benefits from the atmosphere in Acquanetta's performance. She really does seem like a wild woman. Evelyn Ankerks and Milburn Stone offer up nice performances and it's always a lot of fun to see Carradine.

This film gets an unfair bad rap sometimes, mainly because of the inferior sequels. In reality it is a great change of pace from other Universal Horror films. Yes it did utilize some animal footage from another film, but it had plenty of its own new shot sequences with the lions/tigers.Hats off to John Carradine for turning in one of his best, if not THE best horror film role he did. Evelyn Ankers is in fine form as usual. The ape womans transition is nicely done and the character was unique in the Universal Horror series. This along with Man Made Monster deserve better praise and discussion since many of the other films have been discussed endlessly in books and magazines.10/10!

Dr. Sigmund Walters (John Carradine) is a mad scientist (of course) who wants to put the glands of a human into a gorilla (for some reason). He has to kill to do it but it works and the gorilla turns into beautiful Paula Dupree (Acquanetta). She falls for lion tamer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone) and gets angry when she realizes he has a girlfriend (Evelyn Ankers). She then begins to revert to her gorilla form...Even for a horror film this plot is pretty stupid but they pull it off. It moves quick, has good acting and some very exciting lion taming at a circus (even though they reuse the same shots multiple times). Stone is just OK but Carradine hams it up, Ankers looks beautiful and screams nicely and Acquanetta doesn't have a word of dialogue but looks incredible. A silly but very enjoyable Universal horror film. Not one of their classics but lots of fun.

Silly, forgotten Universal horror film, now found on DVD in a Best Buy exclusive set. This one concerns a mad scientist with Nazi undertones (John Carradine) who kidnaps a circus gorilla and turns her into a human being (played by Acquanetta). As a human, Acquanetta has an uncanny ability to control lions and tigers, and is thus employed at a local circus (the one whence she, as the gorilla, was kidnapped) to help big cat tamer Milburn Stone. If Milburn Stone looks familiar, it's because he became famous as "Doc" Adams on Gunsmoke. The movie is silly but fun, with Carradine hamming it up like he usually does. And, while Acquanetta does little acting, she has a hypnotic look with those giant eyes. Unfortunately, the film, like many of the Universal Horror movies, ends abruptly, with a weird narration about the Carradine character. The animal work is pretty stunning for the time, and the editing is mostly convincing that Stone and the big cats are in the cage simultaneously. I would credit director Dmytryk, who was far too competent to be directing this kind of crap (the next year he would do the wonderful Murder My Sweet). If you love animals, you might be sickened at what is done to them. Lions and tigers are thrown into a cage and forced to fight each other. The one big fight ends with a fire hose, and the tiger, at least, looked like it was badly injured. The film is completely forgotten nowadays, but it did spawn two sequels.