Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
Smoki Whitfield
- Eli
- (as Robert 'Smoki' Whitfield)
James Adamson
- Tolu
- (uncredited)
Sugarfoot Anderson
- Native Slave
- (uncredited)
Wesley Bly
- Timid Native
- (uncredited)
Woody Strode
- Mailman
- (uncredited)
Jack Williams
- Drummer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLaurette Luez, who plays the sarong-wearing Lita, was born in Hawaii and enjoyed a 20-year career as a supporting actress and pin-up girl, as famous for being a Hollywood socialite as she was for her acting career. She retired from the screen in the mid-50s and died of undisclosed causes in 1999.
- GoofsWhen Bomba and the girl first see the mine a sluice is being used. The native is turning the water wheel the wrong way - hardly any water is coming out onto the sluice.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
Featured review
A total bomb(a).
Perhaps he's not into girls, or maybe he's already got a thing going with Kimbbo the Chimp (it can get lonely in the jungle), but Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) shows absolutely no interest in smokin' hot babe Lita Sebastian (Laurette Luez), even when she says that she doesn't know how to repay him for his bravery. I'd have a few ideas! Bomba's certainly no Tarzan, that's for sure.
Speaking of Tarzan, this adventure for Bomba isn't on a par with even the weakest of the Johnny Weismuller classics, in which Sheffield played the yodelling vine-swinger's adopted son, Boy. It's not Sheffield's fault - he does what he can with the weak material: no, the fault lies with Ford Beebe, whose direction is as bland and uninspired as his script (he also pads out his film with dreary stock footage). I've seen four other films by Beebe thus far, and 'Mediocre' seems to be his middle name.
The dismal plot sees Bomba help Lita to rescue her father, who is one of a group of unfortunates forced by diamond hunters to work in a mine in a crater in the jungle. The film is so dull that the highlights (lovely Luez aside) are a monkey wearing a napkin and the chimp throwing a rock. While I'm usually a sucker for a tussle with a stuffed lion, Beebe even manages to suck the fun out of that. The film's dumbest moments are Bomba using a tree as a makeshift jungle drum (try that next time you're in the woods to see how stupid it is) and finding a submerged tunnel through which he can swim into the crater unseen - how fortuitous!
3.5/10, generously rounded up to 4 for Luez.
Speaking of Tarzan, this adventure for Bomba isn't on a par with even the weakest of the Johnny Weismuller classics, in which Sheffield played the yodelling vine-swinger's adopted son, Boy. It's not Sheffield's fault - he does what he can with the weak material: no, the fault lies with Ford Beebe, whose direction is as bland and uninspired as his script (he also pads out his film with dreary stock footage). I've seen four other films by Beebe thus far, and 'Mediocre' seems to be his middle name.
The dismal plot sees Bomba help Lita to rescue her father, who is one of a group of unfortunates forced by diamond hunters to work in a mine in a crater in the jungle. The film is so dull that the highlights (lovely Luez aside) are a monkey wearing a napkin and the chimp throwing a rock. While I'm usually a sucker for a tussle with a stuffed lion, Beebe even manages to suck the fun out of that. The film's dumbest moments are Bomba using a tree as a makeshift jungle drum (try that next time you're in the woods to see how stupid it is) and finding a submerged tunnel through which he can swim into the crater unseen - how fortuitous!
3.5/10, generously rounded up to 4 for Luez.
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- BA_Harrison
- Dec 2, 2020
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- Bomba and the African Treasure
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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