Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Wild Cargo (film)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
4
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron4
4
1 Ratings
100
90
80
70
60
50
41
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Armand Denis

Language
  
English


Writer
  
Edward Anthony
,
Courtney Ryley Cooper

Release date
  
April 6, 1934 (1934-04-06)

Wild Cargo was a 1934 jungle adventure documentary starring Frank Buck. Buck depicts the ingenious methods by which he traps wild birds, mammals and reptiles. Many scenes were photographed on the vast Malayan estates of Buck's friend, Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who appears in person in the film.

Contents

Arthur jones wild cargo snakes


Scenes

Among the scenes in the film are:

  • a python's escape from its box; Buck recaptures the giant snake.
  • a fight to the death between a black panther and a python in which the python comes off victorious
  • Buck traps a man-eating tiger
  • a python crawls in between the bars of a pig pen and swallows the pig; the snake has imprisoned itself, for with the pig inside it, it could not extricate itself from the pen
  • a python attacks Buck in the jungle, and Buck must shoot the huge snake to save his own life
  • a king cobra escapes from its box and attacks Buck

    • Behind the camera

    Cameraman Leroy G. Phelps was nearly crippled by an infection he acquired after scratching himself on a poisonous renghus plant. Buck and Phelps were almost trampled by a herd of stampeding water buffalo; they were spared only when the animals changed direction at the last moment.

    Reception

    According to the New York Times, "Although it may seem as though several incidents in the screen work were prearranged, they are nevertheless quite thrilling."

    The film earned RKO a profit of $100,000. The film was a box office disappointment for RKO.

    References

    Wild Cargo (film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA