Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Blond beautiful and topless, this in 1956 when the Hayes Commission was still in effect, Liane played by German actress Marion Michael has been having the time of her life swinging on vines and living rent free in her jungle tree-house for the last 18 years after she was washed up on the coast of Kenya and adopted by the local Botos tribesmen and worshiped as their jungle goddess. This all came to an end when she and her pet baby lion Simba was captured by a number of white Europeans, Germans, hunters lead by handsome blond and Aryan, like herself, looking Thoren, Hardy Kruger, and brought back to civilization in Hamburg Germany for study & observation. It soon becomes apparent that Liane, all the facts about her checks out, is the grand daughter of German shipping tycoon Theo Amelongen, Rudolf Forster, who had given her and her shipwrecked parents up for dead 18 years ago.It's Theo's nephew Viktor, Reggie Nalder, who's to inherited his shipping business who feels that Liane is a threat to his career and does everything to discredit her as being old man Theo's biological grand daughter. Try as he does all the evidence to Liane's relationship to Theo stands up and Viktor in an act of desperation ends up murdering the old guy and pins the blame of his murder on Liane's manservant Boto tribesman Tibor Teleky, Peter Mosbacher. It doesn't take long for the smart as a whip Thoren Aka Thor to see through the scam and expose Viktor as Theo's murderer. That's when in a fit of insanity, in fear of being caught, Victor really goes off the deep end and ends up sleeping with the fishes. That after a wild car chase in the streets of Hamburg that rivals the great car chase scenes in both "Bullet" and "The French Connection" that were in fact made some 15 years later!****SPOILERS**** After all the action in the movie that took place in Hamburg Germany in the end Liane not wanting what the civilized world offers her as well as the late Theo's shipping business is back in the jungles of Kenya with her pet lion Simba swimming in the nude with the now, he doesn't care for civilization either, jungle man Thoren as the film ends.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Liane, Jungle Goddess 1956. An African expedition consisting of Germans find a blonde native girl in the jungle. Research proves that she is the heir to a German billionaire's industrial fortune. The heir is brought back to civilization only to get involved in family drama.*Special Stars- Marion Michael, Hardy Kruger. *Theme- Kindness and help will benefit the weak.*Trivia/location/goofs- German, B&W. Very early screen appearance for actor, Hardy Kruger. Some suggested jungle nudity in swimming and dancing. Many 50's & 60's German character actors are included.*Emotion- A wonderfully naive plot and theme for a foreign jungle film. It's fairytale story keeps you wondering where the drama will start. It does and keeps you interested till the final scene. Simple film with easy virtues.

dlee2012 "Liane, Jungle Goddess" is a simple German Tarzan clone. Clearly aimed at the Saturday matinée market, it remains a worthwhile family film.It is a straightforward adventure story and was obviously made quite cheaply. There are few twists in the plot and there is a distinct lack of artistry in the storytelling and direction but it remains quite watchable after sixty years.The story tells of how white girl is found living amidst an African tribe and is rehabilitated to her family. As is so often the case in these stories, it emerges she is the granddaughter of a wealthy tycoon so, fairytale-like, she is set to inherit a fortune unless a jealous antagonist's plot is successful.The African tribes-people are initially treated as a marginalised "other" and have no voice in the initial stages of the film. It is only when one of them travels back to Germany with Liane does he gain a voice and he is shown to be an honourable protector. Nevertheless, throughout the black people are shown to be subservient to the white girl who leads them which is interesting given the film was made in a German still coming to terms with the horrific racial policies of its recent past.The early colour in the film is badly faded now. The sets are limited but emphasise the contrast between the rich western world and the jungle life but it condemns neither. Implicitly, though, there is the feeling the white girl belongs with the white people and that a return to civilisation is a better place for her.The initial mystery of Liane's origins is staged in a very rudimentary way, as is the plot at the end. More fun is seeing how she adapts to life in Hamburg and uses her jungle knowledge on her family estate.Marion Michael's acting is passable in a brave performance. Some other reviewers have raised the question of the nudity in the film. It is completely non-sexual in nature so conservative parents need have no concern. Indeed, there is no offensive material in this film at all, apart from possibly the representations of race mentioned above.Overall, this is a very workmanlike film and, on one level, it is sad to see how the German film industry had declined since the heady days of Fritz Land and the Weimar Republic. On the other hand, in its simplicity and wholesomeness, the film is clearly trying to capture something of innocence, an innocence that had been lost in the horrors of the Third Reich. Marion Michael herself was a refugee from Königsberg, evacuated as a child as her city was annihilated around her, so the fact that she was able to survive that absolutely horrific situation and find success in the film industry by personifying a character displaced yet holding onto a hopeful innocence, perhaps gave the German populace and, indeed, all of us a hope for humanity that the civilian victims of war may survive and overcome the trauma to create something so good and so wholesome.

vitaleralphlouis I need to write this review as an offset to the drivel others have posted. LIANE gives the audience more than you'd expect. Much better than "Greystoke" and much better than most 2010 movies where "stupid" reigns supreme.Of course we expect a sexy blonde with lots of leg; not just for 10- year old boys but for old geezers as well. Not to give the plot away but there are two short scenes taking place in Hamburg, Germany where the legs get covered up by a dress! Ugh!Still, the entire movie is strictly G rated in spirit and content.Very nice scenes of the African jungle, lots of animals, including the lake where all the flamingos (usec to) flock. Hardy Kruger is the handsome young hero who has to contend not only with Liane but with a pretty cute female doctor who's set her eyes on him.The thin plot is never boring and will keep the interest of the kind of audience that loves good movies but wouldn't waste 5 minutes on Kick-Ass or Iron Man 2.LIANE is now in DVD, in color, doubled with another good B movie (about Devil's Island). Recommended.