Jungle of beauty

Movie
German title	Jungle of beauty
Original title	The Beauty Jungle
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1964
length	114 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Val Guest
script	Robert Muller Val Guest
production	F. Sherwin Green Val Guest Earl St. John
music	Laurie Johnson
camera	Arthur Grant
cut	Bill Lenny
occupation
Janette Scott : Shirley Freeman Ian Hendry : Don Mackenzie Ronald Fraser : Walter Carey Edmund Purdom : Rex Carrick Jean Claudio : Roger Armand Kay Walsh : Mrs. Freeman Norman Bird : Mr. Edward Freeman Janina Faye : Elaine Freeman Tommy Trinder : Charlie Dorton David Weston : Harry Peter Ashmore : Lucius Sidney James Jacqueline Jones Jackie White Jerry Desmonde

Jungle of Beauty (Original title: The Beauty Jungle ) is a British feature film directed by Val Guest from 1963 with Janette Scott and Ian Hendry in the lead roles. The script was written by Robert Muller in collaboration with the director. In his home country, the film was first shown in cinemas on August 25, 1964, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 12, 1965, at that time under the (somewhat misleading) title We show what we have .

action

Shirley Freeman, a young shorthand typist from Bristol, is spotted on the beach at a family bath by little-known reporter Don Mackenzie and persuaded to take part in a local beauty contest. More out of amused curiosity, Shirley gets involved and is hopelessly beaten off. But Don has got it into his head to justify his fame with a series of articles about the "girl next door" and slowly but surely manages it upwards, which is incited by various reactions. The game has long since become serious. When Shirley is defeated by the "Miss Globus" shortly before the summit, a world collapses for her. Never again will she be able to become the satisfied girl she used to be.

criticism

“Amazingly well done and with recognizably serious intention carried unmasking of the beauty hype without inconsistently speculative ingredients. Recommended from 16! "

- Protestant film observer

"Contrary to the German distribution title, an unspeculative film that dispenses with irony and satire in favor of angry black and white dramaturgy."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Jungle of beauty in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Long review from the Evangelisches Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 57/1965, pp. 107-108.
2. ↑ For many years in the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was titled We show what we have.
3. ↑ Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4336.