American Releasing Corporation eventually became American International Pictures (AIP), which specialized in double bill bookings. This double bill pressbook is for Female Jungle and The Oklahoma Woman. Two separate folded sheets for each movie were put into the folded cover sheet, with the emphasis on newspaper ads touting sex appeal to entice movie-goers. For Female Jungle, it was “Jayne Mansfield…sex on the rocks” and for The Oklahoma Woman it was “a whip-wielding she-devil.” Clearly, young teen men were the target audience. Touch Connors (don’t touch that) starred in The Oklahoma Woman. Connors (no relation to Chuck Connors) eventually came to his senses and renamed himself as Mike Connors (who you may know as Mannix from the television series). The publicity campaign was a no-brainer (actually brainless) with “Put up a big front with Jayne” selling the woman-on-the-floor-holding-desperately-onto-the-leg-of-a-guy theme, and the promise of the Queen of the Outlaws cat-fighting with her female rival and cracking that whip (on guys, ouch) theme.
Roger Corman already had The Oklahoma Woman, which cost $60,000 dollars, ready to go. They just needed a second movie to complete the double bill and did so with the $49,000 Female Jungle, a Burt Kaiser written and produced effort. Female Jungle was shot in six days. According to IMDb, Mansfield was paid $150 dollars for her role in the movie, which was expanded after a serious incident kept Kathleen Crowley from continuing in her lead role. Lawrence Tierney and John Carradine also appeared in this one.
