Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Stevieboy666 John Carradine plays an evil, mad scientist who steals a huge ape from a circus and through his experiments turns it into a woman at his sanatorium. Story wise it's silly but amusing, and it is reasonably well made. Much of the film takes place in a circus, however, and this is where lies my problem. Yes, the film is now old and things were different then but sadly this does feature lions and tigers in cramped conditions and being horribly abused, several times a lion and a tiger fight each other. All for our "entertainment". I could find no pleasure in this, only repulsion, hence 2/10.

AaronCapenBanner John Carradine plays insane Dr. Walters, who is obsessed with his human gland experiments, where he turns a female ape named Cheela into a beautiful woman he names Paula Dupree(played by Acquanetta)! She was in the circus run by Fred Mason(played by Milburn Stone) whom she is in love with, but is driven to murderous rage when she discovers that he is already involved with Beth Colman(played by Evelyn Ankers). How will this unlikely soap opera turn out? Utterly preposterous film with absurd science and hokey plot. Sad to see perennial Universal Studios "scream queen" Evelyn Ankers wasted here. Amazingly, the first of a trilogy!(though the last two are not on DVD).

Scarecrow-88 Mad scientist, Dr. Sigmund Walters(John Carradine), his glandular work heralded by the medical community, wishes to make a race of supermen(yeah, I know)and sees a golden opportunity when the glands extracted from a new patient, Dorothy(Martha Vickers), could very well transform a giant female gorilla into a human woman. When Walters' nurse, Strand(Fay Helm), threatens to expose him because of his constant use of a increasingly tired Dorothy's glands, the diabolical doctor kills her, removing her cerebrum as a means to give his subject a mental stability needed instead of a primitive animal mind. While this part of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN is a classic Universal Studios plot often used in times past and future films, it unfortunately plays second fiddle to the animal acts and circus footage integrated into the central story of an animal tamer, Fred Mason(Milburn Stone), who sees the opportunity to work for the circus of his girlfriend's boss, John Whipple(Lloyd Corrigon). Evelyn Ankers(beautiful and sophisticated as always, thanks in part to the Vera West wardrobe)is Beth Colman, Dorothy's sister and Fred's lady. The exotic sensuality of Acquanette is poorly utilized(she's really not in the film that very long which is a crime)as she appears in the female human form of Cheela, the gorilla confiscated by Walters, his guinea pig in regards to his glandular experiments. As Paula, we see that she was in love with Fred as a gorilla and this remains when she is in her human incarnation. Paula has an amazing ability to keep the restless lions and tigers in line since her gorilla "aura" remains(the animals can sense what the humans around her can not), striking a fear in the dangerous animals, a major asset to Fred who begs Whipple to include her in the taming act of the circus portion. Meanwhile, Walters must deal with Paula's reversion to gorilla form when she becomes enraged with Beth as she embraces Fred, even attempting to attack her in her bedroom one night, killing the maid who awakens. Beth's life will be in peril as she answers the worried call of Dorothy, who has become fed up with Walters' glandular experiments on her. Walters isn't keen on allowing anyone to stand in the way of his mad dream, and Beth will try to save herself and Dorothy by turning Paula loose..will she succeed? Carradine's star power boosts this rather okay, but relatively minor Universal offering. Cheela is essentially a man in a gorilla costume which might give many horror fans the giggles. I think what maligns this particular film is the dependence on footage of a lion tamer and the animals he's working into a circus act..it kind of gets a bit tedious after a while.

dougdoepke This is probably the only movie on record with more whip-cracks than dialog, so you may need earplugs. Actually I kept waiting for the Wild Woman to, you know, like get wild— like tear up the scenery or at least a bunch of hot-blooded men. But no. All this wild woman does is stand stock-still and plant a big-eyed stare on the big cats who really are wild. And for some strange reason only mad scientist (is there any other kind) Carradine knows, this scares the heck out of the big cats. She's definitely not a woman to monkey with. But then, Carradine goes and monkeys around with gorilla glands so that the Wild Woman turns into a perfect mate for the Wolf Man. Which, of course, allows the studio to re-use all that left-over Lon Chaney makeup.Forget this plot, which is too goofy and poorly blended in, anyway. The real attraction are the big cats and trainer Clyde Beatty (look-alike Stone in close-ups). Those lion vs. tiger tussles are real grabbers and about the only reason to tune in. Can't help noting another weirdness. Namely, that blacklisted director Ed Dmytryk helmed this decidedly a-political effort. Talk about a fish out of water. Also, look for a real wild woman in person of Martha Vickers (Dorothy, the sister) who later heats up the screen in Bogart's The Big Sleep (1946). Too bad she didn't get her chance here. Anyway, a more accurate title would be A Day at the Circus, but then, Hollywood never did believe in Truth in Advertising.