Slave Girl (1947) DVD-R

Starring George Brent, Yvonne De Carlo, Broderick Crawford, Lois Collier, Albert Dekker,
Andy Devine
Directed by Charles Lamont

Print: color
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss; nonetheless, this
kind of entertainment (along with the equally lowbrow Abbott and Costello and Ma and Pa
Kettle pictures) paid the bills for the studio's more ponderous projects. The slave girl of the
title is Yvonne DeCarlo, one of many in servitude to a 19th century Tripoli potentate (Albert
Dekker). Two-fisted American diplomat George Brent, accompanied by brawling sailors
Broderick Crawford and Andy Devine, has been sent by his government to negotiate the
release of hostages captured by the potentate. When negotiations break down, DeCarlo
agrees to help Brent free the prisoners through more direct means, provided he takes her
away with him. If Slave Girl was supposed to have been taken with a straight face, Universal
would never have included brief cutaways to a wisecracking camel (!), whose name is
"Humpy" and whose voice is provided by Buddy Hackett.