Jungle Jim - DVD

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

Clyde Beatty, the world's most fearless wild animal trainer, leads safaris into Africa's darkest jungles. Traveling with his partner, Grant Cunningham, he specializes in capturing exotic species for circuses and zoos around the globe. His already dangerous job is made even more difficult when Gorman, an unscrupulous hunter, attempts to cut in on Beatty's lucrative enterprise. Whether capturing wild gorillas or journeying deep into hosti

Johnny Weissmuller. After nearly 20 years of jungle adventures as 'Tarzan the Ape ManInch, Weissmuller throws his physical being into another vine-swinging hero. Jungle Jim was the nickname of the comic strip character Jim Bradley, who became an ample source of adaptations for TV and films. Here are several movies featuring the character as he takes on one dangerous challenge after another in the uncharted wild. First up is InchMark of the GorillaInch (Trudy Marshall. 1950/68 min), in which our hero tries to stop Nazis, disguised as gorillas, from searching for gold. In InchPygmy IslandInch (Ann Savage. 1950/69 min), Jungle Jim desperately searches for missing WAC Captain Ann Kingsley. Jim then battles a giant spider when he tries to help the women of a tribe whose men have been enslaved to find an animal that produces a dangerous narcotic in InchFury of the CongoInch (Sherry Moreland. 1951/69 min.) In InchJungle ManhuntInch (Bob Waterfield. 1951/66 min), a former football hero has been missing since his military plane went down 9 years ago and Jim sets out to find him. InchJungle Man-EatersInch (Karin Booth. 1954/68 min) finds Jim trying to stop the dangerous plan of a diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe. Last up is InchJungle Moon MenInch (Jean Byron. 1955/70 min), which while not an official Jungle Jim movie does star Weissmuller as a Jungle Jim type character who is captured by pygmy Moon Men who worship the Princess Oma when he travels to the remote Baku area in Africa. 2 DVDs. B&W/NR/fullscreen.