{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Untamed Mistress | image = Untamed Mistress poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Ron Ormond<br>Allan Nixon | producer = June Carr<br>Ron Ormond | writer = Orville H. Hampton<br>Ron Ormond<br>Paul Leslie Peil | narrator = | starring = Jacqueline Fontaine<br>Allan Nixon<br>Cliff Taylor<br>Byron Keith<br>Carol Varga<br>Don C. Harvey<br>Jack Reitzen<br>Nelson Leigh<br>F.E. Miller<br>James Adamson | music = Walter Greene | cinematography = Alan Stensvold | editing = Igo Kantor<br>Hugh Winn | studio = Howco Productions | distributor = Sinister Cinema<br>Joseph Brenner Associates<br>Nashville Cinema Partners | released = {{Film date|1953|06|17}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = English }} '''''Untamed Mistress''''' is an American film directed by Ron Ormond and starring Jacqueline Fontaine, Allan Nixon, Cliff Taylor, Byron Keith, and Carol Varga.<ref>{{cite web |title=Untamed Mistress (1956) |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/untamed-mistress/ |publisher=Letterboxd |access-date=11 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Untamed Mistress (1956) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/untamed-mistress-1956 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=11 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1-link=Gerald R. Butters |last1=Butters |first1=Gerald R. |title=Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966 |date=2007 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-6603-3 |page=276 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3XBLyzwhcsC&dq=Untamed+Mistress+1956+film&pg=PA276 |access-date=11 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Weiner |first1=Robert G. |last2=Cline |first2=John |title=Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins |date=17 July 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7657-6 |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4aSF_sChKG0C&dq=Untamed+Mistress+1956+film&pg=PA292 |access-date=11 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
==Plot== Deep in the Indian jungles, two gentlemen are searching for a beautiful woman, Velda, who was kidnapped by a group of bloodthirsty gorillas. Eventually, they finally find her, but the gorillas are determined to keep the woman within their tribe.
==Cast== *Allan Nixon as Arthur *Jacqueline Fontaine as Velda *Byron Keith as Maharajah Parsta *John Martin as Jack *Cliff Taylor as Cyril *Carol Varga as Rani, the serving girl *Rick Vallin as Henchman *Nelson Leigh as The Holy Man *Don C. Harvey as Kurran the Hunter *Jack Reitzen as Rajan, Rani's father *F.E. Miller as Comedian
==Critical response== Writing in AllMovie, critic Robert Firsching described the film as "jungle exploitation" that "consists of real and staged documentary footage, all the better to display numerous topless native women (many of them clearly American) and 'thrilling' wild animal scenes," that "a great deal of the footage was taken from other films," and "there are many people jumping around in gorilla costumes."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Firsching |first1=Robert |title=Untamed Mistress (1957) |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/untamed-mistress-vm101026 |website=AllMovie |publisher=Netaktion LLC |access-date=2024-03-18}}</ref>
== See also ==
* ''Ingagi'' (1930 exploitation film with similar premise)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0046482|title=Untamed Mistress }} *[https://archive.org/details/untamed-mistress-1954 Untamed Mistress by Ron Ormond, Allan Nixon]
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