Several persons, including an off duty policeman and a weird rich guy, are suspects in the murder of a beautiful actress.Several persons, including an off duty policeman and a weird rich guy, are suspects in the murder of a beautiful actress.Several persons, including an off duty policeman and a weird rich guy, are suspects in the murder of a beautiful actress.
Duane Grey
- Sgt. Duane
- (as Rex Thorsen)
Cornelius Keefe
- Capt. Kroger
- (as Jack Hill)
Davis Roberts
- George
- (as Robert Davis)
Alan Jay Factor
- Dr. Urquhart
- (as Alan Frost)
Bruno VeSota
- Frank
- (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Eve Brent
- Monica Madison
- (as Jean Lewis)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJayne Mansfield was paid $150 for her role and went back to her job selling popcorn at a movie theater after making this movie.
- GoofsAt 1 hour 1 minute Det. Jack Stevens and another Detective chase Alex Voc into a warehouse. Alex pushes a cart full of containers in front of Stevens and runs further into the warehouse leaving 3 containers are on the floor. Shortly thereafter, Alex flees the warehouse followed by Stevens and the second Detective. As they flee, there are now 2 containers lying on the floor, both in new positions.
- Quotes
Candy Price: With or without violins, I'd call this a brush-off.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Horrible Honeys (1988)
Featured review
Late noir meets the drive-in exploitation flick
There's a persuasive argument to be mounted that the end of the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood movie-making can be ascribed not to the studios' divestiture of its theater chains but to the explosion, in the motorized society of the 1950s, of drive-in theaters, where the main attraction was not on the screen. Up to that point, even the lowliest second feature was apt to show at least a modicum of craft and plausibility. The exploitation movies changed all that, ushering in an era when just about anything goes or, often, nothing.
American International Pictures was the outfit that pioneered fodder for the teenage popcorn-and-petting trade. In 1956, it released one of its few features that might be considered even marginally noir Female Jungle (also called The Hangover). Neither title quite fits, though the second has a bit more claim to legitimacy than the first, which was simply a ploy to pack 'em in.
After the gala premiere of her debut film, a starlet leaves a seedy bar and meets her quietus at the hands of a strangler. For the next hour or so, Lawrence Tierney, John Carradine, Jane Mansfield and half a dozen other characters go racketing around through the night on a series of wild-goose chases. Tierney plays an off-duty policeman whose long evening bending his elbow resulted in a blackout; he thinks he might have been the killer. Carradine plays a gossip columnist whose helped the dead starlet's career, only to be jilted. Mansfield (in her screen debut) seems to be playing a call-girl who's in love with an out-of-work caricaturist whose wife might be the next victim of .
All that said, Female Jungle remains watchable, if barely. It was AIP's policy to engage a few actors on the way up and a few more on the way down, filling up the rest of the slots with whoever was handy (both the producer and director have parts in the movie). But Tierney, by this time seriously on the skids and persona-non-grata in the major studios, exudes some of his rough magic while Carradine, looking particularly suave, gives it his old-trouper's all. And Mansfield, of course, has her own morbid fascination. There's a peculiar allure to some of this late-50s sleaze; if you're into it, this is the movie for you.
American International Pictures was the outfit that pioneered fodder for the teenage popcorn-and-petting trade. In 1956, it released one of its few features that might be considered even marginally noir Female Jungle (also called The Hangover). Neither title quite fits, though the second has a bit more claim to legitimacy than the first, which was simply a ploy to pack 'em in.
After the gala premiere of her debut film, a starlet leaves a seedy bar and meets her quietus at the hands of a strangler. For the next hour or so, Lawrence Tierney, John Carradine, Jane Mansfield and half a dozen other characters go racketing around through the night on a series of wild-goose chases. Tierney plays an off-duty policeman whose long evening bending his elbow resulted in a blackout; he thinks he might have been the killer. Carradine plays a gossip columnist whose helped the dead starlet's career, only to be jilted. Mansfield (in her screen debut) seems to be playing a call-girl who's in love with an out-of-work caricaturist whose wife might be the next victim of .
All that said, Female Jungle remains watchable, if barely. It was AIP's policy to engage a few actors on the way up and a few more on the way down, filling up the rest of the slots with whoever was handy (both the producer and director have parts in the movie). But Tierney, by this time seriously on the skids and persona-non-grata in the major studios, exudes some of his rough magic while Carradine, looking particularly suave, gives it his old-trouper's all. And Mansfield, of course, has her own morbid fascination. There's a peculiar allure to some of this late-50s sleaze; if you're into it, this is the movie for you.
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- Apr 1, 2002
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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