Woman in the Jungle (German: ) is a 1931 American drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Charlotte Ander, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur and Erich Ponto.Waldman p.97 It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris as the German-language version of The Letter. Such multiple-language versions were common during the early years of sound before dubbing became widespread. Like the original it was based on the 1927 play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham.
Synopsis In British Malaya, the wife of an owner rubber plantation takes a lover amongst the colonial elite. When he tires of her and takes up with a Chinese woman instead, she shoots him dead. She now faces an investigation.
Cast Charlotte Ander as Leslie Crosbie Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Robert Crosbie Erich Ponto as Joyce Robert Thoeren as Geoffrey Hammond Grace Chiang as Li-Ti Yuon Ling Tschang as Ong Philipp Manning as Der Vorsitzende
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Bibliography Waldman, Harry. Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema. McFarland, 2000.
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