[The] Jungle Captive

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage publicity photograph of Rondo Hatton from the 1945 film.

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

Rondo Hatton was a journalist and actor who found a film career due to his unique facial features, a result of acromegaly from exposure to poison gas in World War I. Headlining horror films for Universal Studios in the early 1940s, he died early in his film career in 1946 at the age of 51, and has since become a cult icon.

The third and last film in the Paula Dupree trilogy, preceded by "Captive Wild Woman" (1943) and "Jungle Woman" (1944). Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman, is brought back to life by a mad scientist and his disfigured assistant.

10 x 8 inches. A faint emulsion irregularity to the bottom left, else Near Fine.

Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horros 1931-1946.

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