Jungle Menace

Infobox Film
name = Jungle Menace


image_size = 144x197
caption = Photograph of star Frank Buck
director = Harry L. Fraser
George Melford
producer = Robert Mintz "executive"
Louis Weiss
writer = George M. Merrick
Sherman Lowe
Harry Hoyt
George Melford
George Rosener
Arthur Hoerl
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
Gordon Griffith
narrator =
starring = Frank Buck
Reginald Denny
LeRoy Mason
Richard Tucker
Duncan Renaldo
music =
cinematography = Edward Linden
Herman Schopp
editing = Earl Turner
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = 26 October 1937
runtime = 15 chapters (308 min)
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by = "The Mysterious Pilot"
website =
amg_id = 1:143554
imdb_id = 0029071

"Jungle Menace" (1937) was the first serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Based on the success of Republic's 1936 serial "Darkest Africa", starring real-life animal trainer Clyde Beatty, Columbia made this exotic jungle serial starring real-life animal collector Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck. Set in the fictional land of "Seemang" in Asia, Buck plays thr ole of Frank Hardy, a soldier of fortune who intervenes in and investigates attempts to run a rubber plantation owner and his daughter off their land.

In 1946 material from this serial was re-edited into the 70-minute feature film "Jungle Terror".

Cast

Chapter titles

# River Pirates
# Deadly Enemies
# Flames of Hate
# One-way Ride
# Man of Mystery
# Shanghaied
# Tiger Eyes
# The Frame-up
# The Cave of Mystery
# Flirting with Death
# Ship of Doom
# Mystery Island
# The Typhoon
# Murder at Sea
# Give 'em Rope_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 218-219
chapter = Filmography ]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0029071|title=Jungle Menace
*amg title|id=1:143554
* [http://www.cinefania.com/movie.php/11539/ Cinefania.com]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=143554 The New York Times]

###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Columbia Serial
before="none"
years=Jungle Menace (1937)
after=The Mysterious Pilot (1929)