Wild Women of Wongo

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Wild Women of Wongo
DVD cover
Directed by	James L. Wolcott
Written by	Cedric Rutherford
Starring	Jean Hawkshaw Mary Ann Webb Cande Gerrard Adrienne Bourbeau
Release date(s)	1958
Running time	71 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Wild Women of Wongo is a 1958 film about a village of beautiful women who meet a village of beautiful men on the other side of a tropical island one fateful day. The movie was released by itself on DVD September 28, 2004.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 References
4 Miami Filmmaker Bruce Merwin to Direct "Wild Women Of Wongo" Remake For Jubilee
5 External links

[edit] Plot

The film starts amusingly enough with a narration from Mother Nature discussing what she described as an experiment she and Father Time cooked up that went horribly wrong. In the land of Wongo she made a race of men in which all the males were brutish and ugly and the women are beautiful and well endowed. On another island, Mother Nature also created the opposite, where the women were repulsive and the men were strong and handsome. For years the two islands lived unaware of the others existence until some ape men from beyond the sea attack the village of the handsome men. Thus they send out the son of the king to look for help against these barbaric invaders. Eventually the son finds the island of Wongo, the day before the time in which the ugly men pick their brides. The women, seeing the handsome prince for the first time, begin questioning their life among the brutes that dwell in the village. The men, seeing this, grow jealous of their visitor and plot to kill him. The women of Wongo, finding out about this, risk their lives to protect the handsome prince, and in doing so offend the reptile god of the Wongo people. The women are then rounded up by the villagers and are sent out into the wilderness until the reptile god has drawn blood for the insult. The women band together, watching each others backs until the apemen arrive at their village and, after they dispatch the invaders to the crocodile "god" leave in search for the men which had abandoned the island. In the other village the men have just begun the rite of manhood in which they go into the jungle without weapons, and spend a month alone. The women of Wongo coming upon the weaponless men, decide to take advantage of their helplessness and, one by one, trap them as their own. The film concludes with all the beautiful men and women getting together leaving the ugly men with the ugly women.

Former Wales rugby union international Rex Richards appears as the King of Wongo.

[edit] Trivia

The board game Balderdash describes this movie as "A group of ugly cave men living with a group of beautiful cave women meet a group of beautiful cave men living with a group of ugly cave women."

Theatrical rock band The Tubes had a song by the same name on their best selling 1983 record Outside Inside (US CHART POSITION #18). It was a parody of the movie.

The Film Crew, a group of MST3K alumni Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett, released a riffed version of the movie on DVD on September 11, 2007 through Shout! Factory.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Shout! Factory Store

[edit] Miami Filmmaker Bruce Merwin to Direct "Wild Women Of Wongo" Remake For Jubilee

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"I originally became a fan of "Wild Women Of Wongo" when I first heard the Tubes song "Wild Women Of Wongo" in 1983. I thought it was a great song and always liked it because it was raw, fun and seemed primitive yet alive now. I did not know in 1983 that the song may have been inspired by a movie "Wild Women Of Wongo". What makes directing this new remake of "Wild Women Of Wongo" special for me is finding out after all these years that "Wild Women Of Wongo" was filmed here in South Florida where I live and work as a filmmaker and now after 50 years I am going to remake this tongue-in-cheek cult classic," said director Bruce Merwin. See www.brucemerwin.com.