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White Savage

1943, Movie, NR, 75 mins

White Savage: Review

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Hall is a fisherman who hunts sharks for the vitamin A in their livers. He seeks permission to fish in the waters surrounding Temple Island--ruled by princess Montez--by asking Sabu, the son of the princess's maid, to arrange a meeting. Sabu brings Hall to the island, and the fisherman and Montez immediately fall in love. But when Hall asks to fish the local waters, she assumes that he is only out to get the treasure in the island's pool and orders him from the island, though they reconcile when Sabu arranges another meeting. Meanwhile, trader Gomez, who is after the treasure, involves Montez's brother, Bey, in a rigged card game, trying to make him lose the deed to the island. Hall, however, joins the game and wins the deed, angering Bey, who strikes him. The next day the inhabitants of Temple Island are celebrating the engagement of Montez and Hall when Gomez arrives with word that Bey has been murdered and that the evidence points to Hall. The shark hunter is locked up until Sabu helps him to escape and prove his innocence. Gomez arrives to plunder the treasure pool, but an earthquake topples the temple, crushing the villains, and Montez and Hall live on in wedded bliss. Not exactly what one would call a serious picture, WHITE SAVAGE was, however, exactly what wartime audiences wanted to see, lightweight entertainment that had nothing to do with reality. In many ways it is the quintessential second-rate adventure film. It features a ludicrous plot, silly dialog, lurid Technicolor, attractive women in sarongs, and two leads who together couldn't act their way out of a paper bag, but who look good. This was the second teaming of Hall and Montez (ARABIAN NIGHTS [1942] was the first). They would be reunited four more times, often with Sabu, mostly in vehicles even sillier than this, including the delightfully campy COBRA WOMAN (1944). leave a comment
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