Movies

Law of the Jungle (1942) is a Monogram soundstage cheapie hacked together in a few days and is crude and flat even for that.  Arline Judge was not a great actress but a good worker when she had something to work with, and a more watchable example of that is Sensation Hunters (1933).  I thought she seemed a bit unfeminine and was surprised to learn she held a Hollywood record for eight marriages long before it was fashionable.  In this thing everyone stands around waiting for a cue and chokes out their lines like they just saw the script for the first time a minute ago.  The leading man could be replaced by a hat rack and even Mantan is reduced to doing pratfalls.  If Mantan can't save a movie, nobody can.  The one item of interest is the appearance of Arthur O'Connell as a greasy traitor with a phony British accent, long before he became known for his kindly grey moustache. 3/10