

There is a moment—about three reels in—when the projector’s carbon arc seems to inhale: Juanita Hansen’s shoulder blades gleam like wet marble under a netting of fireflies, and the entire audience forgets to breathe. That single frame is the Rosetta Stone of The Jungle Princess, a film stitched from the still-warm pe...

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E.A. Martin

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" There is a moment—about three reels in—when the projector’s carbon arc seems to inhale: Juanita Hansen’s shoulder blades gleam like wet marble under a netting of fireflies, and the entire audience forgets to breathe. That single frame is the Rosetta Stone of The Jungle Princess, a film stitched from the still-warm pelt of a 1920 Pathé serial and re-issued as a standalone fever. It is not a story so much as a contagion: ruby lust, colonial guilt, and pubescent daydreams distilled into nitrate m..."

George Chesebro
Frederick Chapin
United States

1922 · IMDb —


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