Lord of the Jungle

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Release year: 1955

Storyline

Mona Andrews arrives by plane in Laghaso Station, Africa, to visit her uncle, Commissioner Andy Barnes, just as three elephant hunters, Jeff Woode, Paul Gavin and Kenny Balou, set out under orders from the district governor to exterminate a herd of elephants that has been terrorizing native villages. Bomba is appalled by this as the elephants are his friends and he knows they are being led by one rogue bull. He is willing to have the rogue bull killed but not the others. The three hunters, evidently paid by the head, seize Bomba, tie him and leave him guarded by two natives, Eli and Molu. Mona helps Bomba escape and he locates the herd and arranges for the rogue elephant to be killed by Barnes as, despite reports elsewhere to the contrary, Bomba kills no elephants before, during or after their time.

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Did you know

• This would be the final film of Johnny Sheffield. He passed away 55 years later without appearing in another movie.

• For the original film in this franchise, 1949's Bomba the Jungle Boy, a second unit filmed about a dozen versions of star Johnny Sheffield swinging through the jungle on various vines. Those 12 takes were then spliced into each of the succeeding Bomba movies, saving Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures untold thousands in production costs.

• This was Johnny Sheffield's 12th and last appearance as Bomba. He had previously played "Boy" opposite Johnny Weissmuller in 8 M-G-M Tarzan films. Although he would survive for more than half a century after this film's release, Sheffield chose never to appear on screen again.

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Technical specs

Sound mix

Mono

Aspect ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White