White Savage is a 1943 American Technicolor South Seas adventure film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Maria Montez , Jon Hall and Sabu . The film was re-released by Realart in 1948 on a double-feature with the same three stars in Cobra Woman (1944) and again in 1953, under the title White Savage Woman . It was choreographed by Lester Horton .
4-485: Princess Tahia (Montez) is the ruler of the tropical Temple Island. Thomas Gomez plays 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. White Savage had been the original title for Montez's first starring vehicle, South of Tahiti (1941). Arabian Nights
8-500: A pin-up star . The response was such that Universal Pictures then cast her in Arabian Nights . Three pearl hunters wind up stranded on a South Pacific island . While one of them falls in love with the daughter of a tribal leader, his two companions are more concerned with robbing the tribe's golden treasure. The film was intended to be Montez's first starring vehicle. It was originally known as Captive Wild Woman and
12-451: Is actually a better movie – Montez and Hall seem to genuinely like each other (not always the case in their films), Richard Brooks’ script is clever and there's plenty of action and gorgeous photography." South of Tahiti South of Tahiti is a 1941 American south seas adventure film directed by George Waggner and starring Brian Donlevy , Broderick Crawford and Andy Devine . It helped launch fourth-billed Maria Montez as
16-450: Was 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 in some scenes were considered to be too skimpy, requiring those scenes to be cut. Diabolique said "Not as well known as Montez's later camp classic Cobra Woman (1944) (to be fair, all her American films are camp classics), White Savage
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