Details

Release year: 1959

Storyline

A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.

Top credits

Directors

Mel Ferrer

Writers

Cast

Audrey Hepburn — Rima
Anthony Perkins — Abel
Lee J. Cobb — Nuflo
Sessue Hayakawa — Runi

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Did you know

• Director Mel Ferrer made a scouting trip to South America with nearly an hour of jungle footage filmed south of Orinoco and in the Parahauri Mountains, much of which was incorporated into the film. Twenty-five acres of back lot were converted to match the previously shot exteriors, incorporating 300 tons of turf, boulders, canoes, grass huts, blowguns, trees, and plants.

• Vincente Minnelli originally started filming with Pier Angeli and Edmund Purdom starring, but MGM chiefs hated the footage, and canceled the production.

• Mel Ferrer had several snakes and birds native to the Venezuelan jungle captured and shipped to Hollywood for use in filming. He also brought a baby deer to the residence he shared with Audrey Hepburn, and they raised it for several months prior to filming so that it could be used in several scenes where Rima interacted with the forest creatures.