Jungle Jim tackles a diamond smuggler. It's a simple plot but a busy film with warring natives, kidnapping. jungle fires, a French detective, stampeding animals, chimpanzee romance and to finish off a mighty explosion bringing half a mountain down. It has stock footage enough for any fan of jungle films and Jim gets to fight a lion and a crocodile to add to the action. So not great but not bad.
Johnny Weissmuller as Jim runs and swims around and sorts out problems in his usual way aided by Tamba the chimp. The rest of the cast are adequate. There is an early appearance by Bernie Hamilton, better known later in his career as excitable Captain Dobey on 'Starsky and Hutch.' The director Lee Sholem had already made two Tarzan films in 1949 and 1950 but with Lex Barker not Johnny as the vine swinger.
In the film there is a fight between a bull and a lion that looks grim. The lion gets tossed about alarmingly and seems like it just wants to escape the stockade in which it is trapped. These things don't normally trouble me but it did look cruel.
And as other reviewers have commented, there are no man-eaters to be seen.
Johnny Weissmuller as Jim runs and swims around and sorts out problems in his usual way aided by Tamba the chimp. The rest of the cast are adequate. There is an early appearance by Bernie Hamilton, better known later in his career as excitable Captain Dobey on 'Starsky and Hutch.' The director Lee Sholem had already made two Tarzan films in 1949 and 1950 but with Lex Barker not Johnny as the vine swinger.
In the film there is a fight between a bull and a lion that looks grim. The lion gets tossed about alarmingly and seems like it just wants to escape the stockade in which it is trapped. These things don't normally trouble me but it did look cruel.
And as other reviewers have commented, there are no man-eaters to be seen.