***SPOILERS*** After a night of drinking and partying actress Monica Madison,Eve Brent, while leaving the Can-Can nightclub is attacked and strangled as her diamond brooch is stolen by her attacker. Coming or staggering out of the club to check out things is police Sgt.Stevens, Lawrence Tierney, who's so smashed that he doesn't know what world he's on. With Sgt. Stevens's boss Capt. Kroger, Jack Hill, spotting him he lets Stevens have in in being drunk on the job even though he's actually off-duty. Ther's also the suspicion by Capt. Kruger that Stevens's in being totally out of it as well as being at the scene of the crime may well be Miss. Madison's murderer! The movie takes a hard right turn when all of a sudden out of nowhere this weirdo Claude Almstead, John Carradine,shows up at the Voe's Alex & Peggy, Burt Kaiser & Kathleen Crowley, apartment in the dead of night-200:AM-to have Alex a professional cartoonist sketch a caricature of himself!
You would think that with a stranger showing up at his door in the middle of the night after a murder was committed just blocks away Alex would be a bit suspicious and throw the guy out but he doesn't! Not only does he invite Almstead into the apartment but has his wife Peggy, who's barley awake, to boil up a cup of coffee for him? Eevn crazier is that Alex soon leaves the apartment for a hot date leaving the creepy looking Almstead all alone with his wife Peggy!
***SPOILERS**** It soon turns out that with Sgt. Stevens doing the legwork that there's a link to Monica Madison's murder that connects to both Almstead and Alex who both turned out to be her lovers! And that link had to do with a drawing or caricature that Alex did of her as well as Almstead being at the Can-Can nightclub just hours before she was murdered! What can actually be called a 100% film noir style movie with it being filmed in almost total darkness, to save on budget costs, without a single ray of sunlight in it. The movie "Female Jungle" also has the distinction of being buxom blond Jane-Man O Man-Mansfield's film debut as Candy Price as well as having it's star Kathleen Crowley raped, for real not in the movie,that held up production for some three days!
You would think that with a stranger showing up at his door in the middle of the night after a murder was committed just blocks away Alex would be a bit suspicious and throw the guy out but he doesn't! Not only does he invite Almstead into the apartment but has his wife Peggy, who's barley awake, to boil up a cup of coffee for him? Eevn crazier is that Alex soon leaves the apartment for a hot date leaving the creepy looking Almstead all alone with his wife Peggy!
***SPOILERS**** It soon turns out that with Sgt. Stevens doing the legwork that there's a link to Monica Madison's murder that connects to both Almstead and Alex who both turned out to be her lovers! And that link had to do with a drawing or caricature that Alex did of her as well as Almstead being at the Can-Can nightclub just hours before she was murdered! What can actually be called a 100% film noir style movie with it being filmed in almost total darkness, to save on budget costs, without a single ray of sunlight in it. The movie "Female Jungle" also has the distinction of being buxom blond Jane-Man O Man-Mansfield's film debut as Candy Price as well as having it's star Kathleen Crowley raped, for real not in the movie,that held up production for some three days!