Jungle Man (film)
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Director Harry L. Fraser Music director Alberto Colombo Country United States | 3.6/10 IMDb Genre Adventure Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 19 September 1941 (premiere) Writer Rita Douglas (original story), Rita Douglas (screenplay) Genres Adventure Film, Romance Film, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure Cast Similar movies The Lion King , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian , Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , Prey , The Jungle Book , Madagascar Tagline All the Beauty and Splendor of Untamed Africa! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jungle Man is a 1941 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Buster Crabbe in his first of many films for Producers Releasing Corporation. He is reunited with Charles B. Middleton from the Flash Gordon serials. Cinematographer and associate producer Mervyn Freeman (1890–1965) was an experienced newsreel cameraman.
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Plot summary
Bruce Kellogg and his friend Alex are off to Africa on an expedition to the "City of the Dead" that is actually footage of Angkor Wat. Bruce's fiancee Betty and her father decide to go along to visit her father's brother James who is a missionary in the same part of Africa. Arriving at the Rev Graham's home they meet Dr Hammond who has spent five years developing a serum to a deadly fever that rages in the area. The results of his work are placed on a freighter to America that has been sunk by a submarine.
As Alex and Bruce venture to the lost city, an epidemic of the fever rages in the territory.
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Production
The film had the working title of King of the Tropics. In 1951 it was retitled Drums of Africa as part of a package of PRC films now titled "Pictorial Films" that were sold to television.
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