Female Jungle

Female Jungle is a 1955 blackandwhite film noir directed by Bruno VeSota, featuring Lawrence Tierney, Kathleen Crowley, John Carradine, Jayne Mansfield, and Burt Kaiser. The production is notable for being Jayne Mansfields first film one of Lawrence Tierneys last before his comeback and the only American International Pictures entry into film noir.

The investigation leads him to Candy, an artists mistress Mansfield, as well as to a slimy Lauratype gossip columnist John Carradine who spent time with the woman that night and becomes the main suspect. But he also becomes a red herring when a third man is finally found to be the real killer.Producer Burt Kaiser and director Bruno VeSota directing his first film, both have roles in the film. In 1954, Kaiser unsuccessfully tried to sell the distribution rights to Paramount Pictures and Allied Artists before it was picked up by American Releasing Corporation ARC, which later became American International Pictures. ........

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