The film was greenlit following the runaway success of the faux-documentary Ingagi (1930), which claimed to be a real account of the discovery of a tribe of gorilla-worshiping savages in Africa who submitted their women to the apes for sexual purposes. The film was notorious for its nudity. Viewed today, it is patently fake (the so-called African women were actresses in blackface and the whole thing was shot in Los Angeles). Long thought lost, several nitrate copies exist within the Library of Congress but obviously, because of its outdated racial perspectives, it will never be shown again.

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