Jungle Man (film)

Jungle Man
Jungle Man
	Original film poster
Directed by	Harry L. Fraser
Written by	Rita Douglas (story and screenplay)
Produced by	Mervyn Freeman (associate producer); Ted Richmond (producer); George R. Batcheller Jr.
Starring	Buster Crabbe ; Charles B. Middleton ; Sheila Darcy
Cinematography	Mervyn Freeman; Jack Greenhalgh;
Edited by	Holbrook N. Todd
Music by	Albeto Colombo
Production; company	Producers Releasing Corporation
Distributed by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Release date	19 September 1941 (premiere);
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Jungle Man is a 1941 American adventure 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.

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 fiancée 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.

Cast

Buster Crabbe as Dr. Robert Hammond, aka Junga
Charles B. Middleton as Rev. James Graham
Sheila Darcy as Betty Graham
Vince Barnett as Buckthorn the Guide
Weldon Heyburn as Bruce Kellogg
Robert Carson as Andy
Paul Scott as William Graham
Hal Price as Capt. Aleck
Floyd Shackelford as Friday

Production

The film had the working title of King of the Tropics.^[1] 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.

Notes

^ p.1248 Hanson, Patricia King & Dunkleberger, Amy AFI: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States : Feature Films 1941-1950 Indexes, Volumes 1-2; Volume 4 University of California Press, 01/06/1999

External links

Jungle Man at IMDb
Jungle Man is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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[1] .1248 Hanson, Patricia King & Dunkleberger, Amy AFI: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States : Feature Films 1941-1950 Indexes, Volumes 1-2; Volume 4 University of California Press, 01/06/1999

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