Jungle Bride - DVD

In 1941 Republic thrilled audiences with perhaps the best jungle serial every produced. This thrilling adventure was based loosely on the famous novel Jungle Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It starred the very beautiful Frances Gifford as Nyoka, with Tom Neal as the male hero Jack Stanton, and Trevor Bardette and Gerald Mohr as their villainous adversaries. Jungle Girl was packed with thrilling cliffhangers as opposing sides fought from chapter to chapter for a fortune in diamonds hidden in the African jungle. With both Helen Thurston and David Sharpe providing incredible stunt work, Gifford was able to swing through the jungle on vines with the agility of Tarzan, dive from cliffs into alligator-filled lakes, wrestle with man-eating lions, and battle quicksand and poison gas throughout all fifteen exciting episodes! Now re-mastered from a newly discovered 35mm master positive print.

Grant Withers stars as the intrepid title hero, who leads a safari deep into darkest Africa to find a missing heiress who's become a Inchwhite goddessInch to the natives. Standing in Jim's way are an old enemy known as the Cobra and a rival search party out to track down-and kill-the young woman. Betty Jane Rhodes, Raymond Hatton, and Henry Brandon also star. 12 chapters; 3 3/4 hrs. On two discs. Standard; Soundtrack English.

Buster Crabbe fights to save African natives and the woman he loves from a deadly epidemic in this heroic adventure loaded with remarkable wildlife footage. Dr. Robert Hammond (Buster Crabbe), known by the natives as "Junga," is met in the wilderness by a safari of explorers searching for the legendary "City of the Dead." The expedition encounters rampaging lions, deadly snakes, and wrathful headhunters, while Junga races the clock to f