Johnny Weissmuller (Jungle Jim), Karin Booth (Bonnie), Richard Stapley (Bernard), Bernard Hamilton (Zuwaba), Lester Matthews (Commissioner Kingston), Vince M. Townsend jr (Chief Boganda), Louise Franklin (N'Gala), Gregory Gaye (Latour), Paul Thompson (Zulu), and "Tamba".
Director: LEE SHOLEM. Screenplay: Samuel Newman. based on the "Jungle Jim" comic strip created by Alex Raymond. Photography: Henry Freulich. Film editor: Gene Havlick. Art director: Paul Palmentola. Set decorator: Sidney Clifford. Music directed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Unit manager: Herbert Leonard. Special effects: Jack Erickson. Assistant director: Charles Gould. Sound recording: Josh Westmoreland. Producer: Sam Katzman. Original theatrical prints processed in sepia.
Copyright 30 March 1954 by Columbia Pictures Corp. U.S. release: June 1954. No New York opening. U.K. release: December 1954. Australian release: 17 February 1955. 7 reels. 67 minutes.
NOTES: Number 13 of the 16-picture "Jungle Jim" series.
COMMENT: This entry has little to with jungle man-eaters at all. Instead the story is about Mr. Jim smashing a ring of diamond smugglers. The investiture scenes, inserted to cash in on the stock footage from "Sanders of the River", seem more than a little ludicrous in this day and age.
Like most of the Jungle Jims, this one would benefit from a fair amount of judicious trimming, particularly of several dialogue- cluttered sequences near the beginning.
The villain is adequately played, Johnny Weissmuller is his usual self, but the sub-hero and the native players are, as usual, something of a liability.
OTHER VIEWS: Jungle Man-Eaters takes the prize for using more stock footage than other Jungle Jim. Extensive clips are employed from both old Tarzan features and the British Sanders of the River. The fight with the croc has been revived for about the fifth time in the Jim saga. True, some of these library extracts still make good viewing, but they don't match the glossy studio photography of the new sequences. And as the new material is, for the most part, rather flatly directed — a sole exception is the escape sequence with its preliminary shadows on the tent — J-M-E emerges as a very mediocre support indeed.
Aging Johnny Weissmuller seems very obviously doubled for most of the stunts. The director exercises less than usual care in keeping the double's face away from the camera. Still, there's enough action to please the unsophisticated audience at which this entry is obvious aimed.
An unlikely jungle doctor, Karin Booth still makes for an attractive heroine. - JHR writing as George Addison.
Director: LEE SHOLEM. Screenplay: Samuel Newman. based on the "Jungle Jim" comic strip created by Alex Raymond. Photography: Henry Freulich. Film editor: Gene Havlick. Art director: Paul Palmentola. Set decorator: Sidney Clifford. Music directed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Unit manager: Herbert Leonard. Special effects: Jack Erickson. Assistant director: Charles Gould. Sound recording: Josh Westmoreland. Producer: Sam Katzman. Original theatrical prints processed in sepia.
Copyright 30 March 1954 by Columbia Pictures Corp. U.S. release: June 1954. No New York opening. U.K. release: December 1954. Australian release: 17 February 1955. 7 reels. 67 minutes.
NOTES: Number 13 of the 16-picture "Jungle Jim" series.
COMMENT: This entry has little to with jungle man-eaters at all. Instead the story is about Mr. Jim smashing a ring of diamond smugglers. The investiture scenes, inserted to cash in on the stock footage from "Sanders of the River", seem more than a little ludicrous in this day and age.
Like most of the Jungle Jims, this one would benefit from a fair amount of judicious trimming, particularly of several dialogue- cluttered sequences near the beginning.
The villain is adequately played, Johnny Weissmuller is his usual self, but the sub-hero and the native players are, as usual, something of a liability.
OTHER VIEWS: Jungle Man-Eaters takes the prize for using more stock footage than other Jungle Jim. Extensive clips are employed from both old Tarzan features and the British Sanders of the River. The fight with the croc has been revived for about the fifth time in the Jim saga. True, some of these library extracts still make good viewing, but they don't match the glossy studio photography of the new sequences. And as the new material is, for the most part, rather flatly directed — a sole exception is the escape sequence with its preliminary shadows on the tent — J-M-E emerges as a very mediocre support indeed.
Aging Johnny Weissmuller seems very obviously doubled for most of the stunts. The director exercises less than usual care in keeping the double's face away from the camera. Still, there's enough action to please the unsophisticated audience at which this entry is obvious aimed.
An unlikely jungle doctor, Karin Booth still makes for an attractive heroine. - JHR writing as George Addison.