This article is about the 1945 Universal film serial. For the variety of plant known as Jungle Queen, see Alpinia purpurata. For a serial with a similar name, see Queen of the Jungle.
Jungle Queen (1945) is a Universalmovie serial. This serial was later re-edited into a feature film for television called Jungle Safari (1956).
Plot
In 1939, Nazi Germany sends a team of agents to incite revolt and seize British Middle Africa as a first step in conquering Africa. Attempting to place their own sympathiser in charge of the local tribe, they face resistance from Pamela Courtney searching for her Uncle Allen Courtney, a pair of American volunteers and the mysterious Jungle Queen Lothel, who appears out of nowhere in her nightgown to give advice and instructions to the tribe.
Cline writes that "although well produced, it often became bogged down with complicated plot twists, psychological debates and confusion as to who was on whose side, and what was really being accomplished." The Jungle Queen herself is never adequately explained.[1]
