​​​​​​​Susan Evans Grove

Detective Nick Danger wakes up bandaged and bleeding on the couch of a beautiful woman not remembering a thing about the past 2 years.

"Babe in the Woods" opens with the most harrowing camerawork known to Hollywood. The audience is in the first person sight of the dark woods that we are running through frantically. The disorienting camera angles and the sound of heavy breathing and a heartbeat build up the tension. Then the camera goes black and all we hear is the heartbeat. Slowly the screen begins to illuminate and we see through soft focus what appears to be a rustic cabin. As the room slowly comes into focus we see a beautiful woman reaching for us. 

Switching from the first person viewpoint we see Blanc La Rocque as Nick Danger and Elva La Terque as Pamela Dietrichson in a rustic cabin. We learn that Dietrichson knows little about how Danger got to her cabin hours before and Danger knows even less. Whatever he cannot remember has not forgotten him and he spends the remainder of the film running from the man in the gray hat having no idea why.

At the end of the film we learn the man in the gray hat is actually Danger’s partner who is trying to get him to a doctor after he had been shot in the head investigating a smuggling operation in a nearby munition plant.