Catherine Miles is on an Amazonian river cruise with her parents when their boat is attacked. Mama and Papa Miles are both killed, and Catherine is abducted by the native tribe who appear to be behind the attack: a fate she naturally abhors.
Given that we first meet Catherine when she is back in civilisation and being tried for a double murder, however, it's not exactly a spoiler to reveal that the natives aren't actually responsible for her parents' deaths.
"Cannibal films" were a popular genre in Italian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. The titillating content was no doubt a factor, and I am sure that budget conscious film-makers appreciated the fact that you could pad the running time with documentary footage. In fact, the first films in the genre purported to be documentaries, in much the same way that Fox purports to be news. Pretty much all you needed to make one, in fact, was an attractive blonde willing to take her top off, and a bunch of extras to wear loin cloths.
White Slave is very much emblematic of the genre - at least my limited experience with it - and also presents a crash course in that age-old cheapie movie technique of never showing the actor's lips move if you can help it. That lets you slap all the dialogue in during post production, and also alleviates the disconnect of mouth movements that are for a language other than that on the audio track.
The above is hopefully interesting, you you will probably notice that none of it addresses whether the movie is any good. It isn't.
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