The Beauty Jungle (also known as Contest Girl) is a 1964 British film directed by Val Guest and starring Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser and Edmund Purdom.

"[2] Weston-super-Mare (including the now-demolished lido), Butlins Bognor Regis and the Redcliffe area of Bristol were amongst the filming locations.

"[2] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Would-be exposé of the horrors and frauds of the beauty queen racket, which never quite makes the grade as either heavy romance, sociological document, personal tragedy, or even just fun.

The dialogue is totally lacking in bite, a sizeable chunk of the footage is expended on interminably dreary beauty parades, and the film only springs to life momentarily in an overdone but amusingly awful contest in a tatty Monte Carlo circus.

Ian Hendry gives a far better performance than his material warrants, and Edmund Purdom intervenes, convincingly enough, as a movie idol who recognises ruefully that he is little more than an inanimate sex-symbol.