White Woman
Cinema 21, $8 admission
Feb 20, 5pm
Feb 24, 5:45pm
Stuart Walker
USA 1933
68 min.
A torch singer (Carole Lombard) banished from Malay nightclubs for
“arousing” the natives,
absconds with a sadistic plantation owner (Charles Laughton) who takes
turns tyrannizing his new wife and his pet monkey. This wacky
precursor to Apocalypse Now offers a heady brew of tribal
insurrections, sexy ex-convicts, and a delirious Laughton as
self-appointed “King of the Jungle.”