Valerie Greybe in Cavegirl

The prehistoric woman who thought Cindy Ann Thompson's Eba was so yummy, she wanted to have Eba, and her tribe, over for dinner.

Valerie Greybe

as

Attila

     Previously I wrote about Eba played by Cindy Ann Thompson in Cavegirl but there are also three other women in the movie. In some future post I will write about the other two women in Eba's tribe. This post will be about the bad guy, or I should say bad girl, of the movie. Towards the end of the movie a tribe of cannibals captures Eba's tribe. I call them a tribe but there are only two of them so technically it's a couple and the woman bosses the guy around, so their probably a married couple. Long story short, they get chased away. (For a slightly longer description of the plot, check out the post about Cindy Ann Thompson.)

     Of course it goes without saying that she dosen't do to much in the movie. She only has about two minutes of screen time and only appears at the 1 hour 6 minute mark. Although the actress must have some fire eating training because she does this to scare and intimidate her captives.

     Attila wears a brown sleeveless fur vest and a grey fur wrap around her left wrist. A brown fur loincloth that is shaped like a V that ends just above her knees. She also wears brown fur shoes.

Title: Cavegirl
Year: 1985
Name: Attila
Actress: Valerie Greybe
Age of actress: ?
Ethnicity - Nationality: ? - American?
Language speaks: native language
Hair color: Black with brown high lights
Hair length: Just above her armpits
Nudity: No
Category: Cavewoman
Location: Prehistoric California
First seen on screen: 1 hour 6 minute mark
Screen time: 2 minutes
Movie length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Media: Movie
Country: USA
Available on: VHS - DVD

Screen caps are from the DVD.

Cindy Ann Thompson in Cavegirl

Cindy Ann Thompson

as

Eba

During a high school field trip to an old abandoned mine that prehistoric cave paintings have been found in,  Rex, the class nerd, accidentally gets transported to prehistoric California. He immediately meets the lovely cavegirl, Eba. Eba clearly is attracted to Rex but the rest of the tribe is leery and treats him with little rspect. Rex spends his time teaching Eba english and also trying to have sex with her. Although, not in that order. Rex also studies Eba's tribe in order to write a book about them. His motives are more for his own personal gain of fame and fortune rather than for actual academic reasons. One day Rex and Eba get seperated. While looking for Eba, Rex realizes that not only is he physically attracted to Eba (who can blame him) but that he loves her too. He eventually finds her. Unfortunately, a nearby tribe of cannibals find her first. Using the last of his equipment, Rex is able to muster up his courage and scare the cannibals away, freeing Eba and her tribe. Eba’s tribe now respects Rex. Rex finds the cave that sent him to the prehistoric past and goes back home. Realizing that there was nothing for him in his own time, Rex decides to go back to Eba in the past.

The humor in Cavegirl is like all teen comedys in the 1980s. Low brow. Think Revenge of the Nerds or Porky's. There is a running gag in the movie. Rex keeps trying to teach Eba to say "Can I sit on your face?". Only in a 80s teen comedy could the "good guy" try to teach a woman to say that. However, it doesn't look like Rex ever tries to teach her what that means or even demostartes how to do it. Eba does however seem to realize that it must be something sexual. But, that might be giving the movie to much credit.

Cavegirl is one of my favorite cavegirl movies for one simple reason, Cindy Ann Thompson. She has such a cute face with such a cute smile. And she looks good in a fur outfit. She is in a lot of the movie but her part is pretty much there just for the character of Rex to play off of.

Sadly, Cindy Ann Thompson died in 2009. She was only 50.

     Eba has shoulder length curly blond hair. She wears a two piece outfit. The top piece is a fur bikini top. The bottom piece is a ragged fur bikini bottom with a longer piece in the front. She goes barefoot the whole movie.

Movie: Cavegirl

Year: 1985

Name: Eba

Actress: Cindy Ann Thompson (also went by Cynthia Thompson)

Age: 26

Ethicity/ Nationality: White - American

Language Speaks: native language - learns english

Hair Color: Blond

Hair Length: just above her shoulders

Footwear: barefoot

Nudity: yes (2 brief scenes)

Category: cavewoman

Location: prehistoric California

First Appears: 22:38 into the movie

Total Screen Time: about 27 minutes

Length of Movie: 1:21:00

Media: movie

Country: USA

Avaible: VHS - DVD

All images are screen caps from the DVD.

Poppy Mehendra in Papillon

Poppy Mehendra

as

Zoraima

In my last blog entry I talked about Ratna Assan in Papillon, the 1973 movie starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Huffman. Considered one of McQueen's best films. Researching the film online (OK I confess, I was looking for more picture of Ratna Assan from the movie), I discovered that there was a remake in 2017. Well, technically not a remake, just another adaptation of the book. This one starred Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) and Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody). Fine actors but I was more concerned with who played Zoraima.

So, I got the DVD from the library and watched it. You know how people say that they don't make movies like they used to. Well, they're talking about this one. Sure it looks like it has a bigger budget but it looks like a movie. I very glossy movie. The original one has a certain realistic grittiness to it. You get a real since that McQueen's Papillon is surviving on pure determination. Hunnam's Papillon is surviving because he is the star of the movie.

But lets get to the important part. Poppy Mehendra as Zoraima. Take a look at the picture at the top of this post. The length of time that you will look at that picture is the same length of time Mehendra is in the movie. In fact the picture is a screen capture of the scene. Towards the end of the movie Papillon wakes up and she is standing over him. For about 5, maybe 10 seconds, she just stands there.  And that is it. That's all she does.

Now i'm not an expert in South American native wear but oddly Zoraima's costume, not that we see get to see much of it, does seem to be more accurate than in the original film.

Also, i'm not sure what the actress' correct name is. In the credits she is billed as Poppy Mehendra. IMDB lists her as Poppy Mahendra.

Images are screen caps from the DVD of Papillon (2017).

Ratna Assan in Papillon

Ratna Assan

as

Zoraima in Papillon

Steve McQueen stars as Henri Charriere, called Papillon because of a butterfly tattoo on his chest, who is sentenced to serve his time in French Guiana. Opon arriving, he quickly forms a partnership with frail forger Louis Dega, played by Dustin Hoffman. Papillon continuously makes escape attempts, only to fail and  end up in solitary confinement. He then ....... wait a minute, I thought this blog was about jungle girls, cave girls and native girls. Correct it is. In one of Papillon's later escape attempts, while running away he jumps into a river. When he wakes up, he's at a native village. The name of the tribe and the exact location of were this tribe is located in relationship to were the prison is is never stated. The chief has one of the women go to Papillon and bring him food, she is called Zoraima in the credits. Next follows a montage of them doing various things: eating, swimming, fishing. I'm not all sure what they did but it is obvious who he did. The chief has Papillon give him a butterfly tattoo like the one that Papillon has on his chest. Papillon does this and the following day he wakes up and finds that the village is now deserted.

Movie scholars often say that the 1960s and the 1970s were the second Golden Age of movies. This is the first time that film makers who grew up watching movies on TV started to make their own movies. There was a lot of experimentation with characters and how movies were made. Papillon is a good example. It is a two and a half hour movie were the main character is sent to prison, escapes, gets captured, is sent to solitary confinement, escapes, gets captured and is sent to solitary confinement over and over again. Then at the two hour mark there is a seven minute sequence were there is no dialog, just music and sound effects. Not only that but the sequence contains a completely separate group of characters, that aren't even in the rest of the movie, and the sequence even has a mini story line and it all works. It is hard to imagine any modern movie being made in 2019 that would do this.

The only bad thing about the movie is that Ratna Assan's screen time is barely over two minutes. Lets be honest there's not much to do in two minutes. But she is able to convey a lot of emotion and intent with out a single line of dialog.

Zoriama has long black hair that goes just below her shoulders. The entire time she is topless except for  what looks like a bandoleer made out of either shells or beads. She wears a loin cloth in the front and back, a thin strap goes over her hips leaving her legs bare. Not sure what the material is made of. Zoriama also goes barefoot.

Movie: Papillon

Year: 1973

Name: Zoraimi

Actress: Ratna Assan

Age of actress: 19

Ethnicit/ Nationality: Java and ? - American

Languages the character speaks: Native language (never seen speaking)

Hair color: Black

Hair length: comes to just below her shoulders

Footwear: Barefoot

Nudity: Yes (topless the whole time)

Category: Native

Location: unnamed island in the French Guiana

Screen Time: 2 minutes 13 seconds

Length of segment: 7 minutes 30 seconds

Media: Movie

Country: USA

Available on: DVD - Blu-Ray

Screens caps are from the DVD.

Copyright is owned by the respective copyright owners. Not by me.

Bonnie Ann Coronado in The Leftovers

Bonnie Ann Coronado

as

an unnamed cavewoman in Axis Mundi

This is kind of a supplement to the Sara Tomko as the woman in The Leftovers' episode "Axis Mundi" blog post. Read that post for a better(?) story summary. SPOILER ALERT. At the end of the segment, after Sara Tomko's character has died, another woman comes along and takes the baby. Presumably to safety. She's not listed in the credits. After diligently searching the internet for many minutes I was able to find out that she was played by Bonnie Ann Coronado. Her total screen time is 38 seconds so it goes with out saying that she isn't able to do too much. I am listing her here because I want this blog to be very thorough in expanding your knowledge of cavewomen on screen. You can thank me latter.

Appearance wise, she seems to be similar to Sara Tomko's cavewoman. Dark skinned, black hair and a dirty body with some scars. Coronado has a rather large one just above her belly button. She is topless and barefoot. It looks like she has a piece of animal skin wrapped around her waist. However, it is difficult to see if it is one piece or in fact two pieces. She also has a bracelet on her left hand made out of animal fur.

Television Series: The Leftovers

Episode Number: season 2 episode 1
Episode Title: Axis Mundi
Year: 2015

Name: unnamed cavewoman

Actress: Bonnie Ann Coronado

Age of actress: unknown

Languages she speaks: native language (does not speak on camera)

Hair Color: black

Hair Length: just above her belly button

Nudity: Yes (topless the whole time)

Category: cavewoman

Location of scenes: prehistoric Texas

Screen time: 38 seconds

Length of segment: 9 minutes 10 seconds

Media: television show

Country: USA

Available on: DVD

Screen caps are from the DVD.

Copyright is owned by the respective copyright owners. Not by me.

Sara Tomko in The Leftovers

      

Sara Tomko

as

The Woman in Axis Mundi

     Just a heads up. The following description does contain SPOILERS. Late one night, a tribe of prehistoric people are sleeping in a cave. One of the women, who is pregnant, goes outside to relieve herself. While she is doing this, there is an earthquake and the cave entrance collapses. As the woman tries to free her tribe, her water breaks and she starts to give birth. Some time later the woman sees a column of smoke in the distance and begins to trek towards it. One day the woman is raiding a bird's nest and a snake attacks the baby. After the woman defends the baby by killing the snake, she realizes that she has been bitten. As the woman slowly dies form the snake bite, she continues to go towards the smoke. Eventually the woman dies on the banks of a river. Soon after another woman comes along and takes the baby. Presumably to safety. The scene changes to modern times, to show modern day teenagers now playing in that same river.

     This is the opening 10 minutes of the first episode of the second season of the television show The Leftovers. The episode is called Axis Mundi. Despite pretty much featuring only one person, the end credits list her as the woman, this is a fantastic piece of television. Even with no dialogue, after all she is alone and no one to talk to, Sara Tomko does a superb job conveying the woman's pain, joy, and loneliness. The cinematography also helps to show her loneliness. If you can't tell, she is in the bottom left of the above picture. I would love to see this as a whole movie by itself.

     As for how this sequence fits into the rest of The Leftovers. I have no idea. This was the first episode that I ever watched. Now I have to go watch the first season and work up to this episode.

     

     Tomko's look as the woman is different than how we usually see cavewomen depicted. First off she is very dirty and either has dark skin or a deep suntan. She also has a lot of scars. I can't tell if they are ceremonial or from animal attacks. The woman who shows up at the end also has a scar, her's is over her belly button.

     The woman's only piece of clothing is what looks like two pieces of animal skin tide together over her hips, one in front and one in back. She is topless and goes barefoot and has no weapons. In the beginning she wears a necklace, probably made of animal skin. Just before she dies it looks like a feather has been added to the necklace.

Television Show: The Leftovers

Episode Number: Season 2 Episode 1
Episode Name: Axis Mundi
Year: 2015

Name: credited as The Woman (never stated on screen)

Actress: Sara Tomko

Actress Race/Nationality: Cherokee/Blackfoot, Slovak, Polish - American

Age: Unknown

Episode Location: Prehistoric Texas

Languages she speaks: native language (never speaks on screen)

Hair Color: black

Hair Length: waist length

Nudity: Yes (topless the whole time)

Category: cavewoman

Screen Time: 7 minutes 40 seconds

Segment Length: 9 minutes 10 seconds

Media: television show
Country: USA
Available on: DVD

Screen caps are from the DVD.

Tanya Roberts in Sheena

Tanya Roberts

as

Sheena

For my first real blog entry I thought I should feature the quintessential jungle girl, Sheena. Although there have been two television shows about Sheena, this is the only movie (so far) that she has appeared in.

After assassinating his brother the King Jabalani, Prince Otwani sets out to kill Sheena and sports reporter Vic Casey. Both who know that the Prince was behind the assassination. At the same time he is also trying to destroy the Zambuli tribe, who's land is around a mountain that contains minerals worth millions.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have always thought that Tanya Roberts was perfect as Sheena. Although I didn't see the movie when it first came out, I did read the two part Marvel Comics comic book adaptation many times. I also read the magazine sized comic book version too. However, the movie was not well received at the time and bombed at the box office. It's a shame because I would have loved to see more movies with Roberts as Sheena.

Name: Sheena

Real Name: Janet

Actress: Tanya Roberts

Race/Nationality: White - American

Age: 29

Location: Africa (location not stated)

Languages: English and native language

Hair Color: blond

Hair Length: chest length

Outfit: 2 piece outfit. Top is sleeveless and has a bare midriff. Bottom is a bikini loincloth.

Footwear: barefoot

Accessories: none

Relationship with animals: talks and commands

Nudity: Yes

Category: Jungle Girl

First Appears: 13 minutes

Screen Time: 45 minutes

Movie Length: 117 minutes
Available on: VHS - DVD

Screen caps are from the DVD.

     Hello. Thanks for coming over to this little island in the sea of the internet. Since this is the very first entry for this blog, I should let you know what this blog is about. This blog will be about jungle girls, cavewomen and other women who have found themselves scantly clad in a jungle or a forest or wherever. I want to cover not only movies and television shows but also comic books, novels and video games. Thanks for stopping by. See you soon.