JUNGLE MAN (1941) Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton & Sheila Darcy | Adventure | B&W

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Jungle Man is a 1941 American adventure film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Buster Crabbe in his first of many films for Producers Releasing Corporation. He is reunited with Charles B. Middleton from the Flash Gordon serials. Cinematographer and associate producer Mervyn Freeman (1890–1965) was an experienced newsreel cameraman.

Synopsis

Bruce Kellogg and his friend Alex are off to Africa on an expedition to the "City of the Dead" that is actually footage of Angkor Wat. Bruce's fiancée Betty and her father decide to go along to visit her father's brother James who is a missionary in the same part of Africa. Arriving at the Rev Graham's home they meet Dr Hammond who has spent five years developing a serum to a deadly fever that rages in the area. The results of his work are placed on a freighter to America that has been sunk by a submarine.

As Alex and Bruce venture to the lost city, an epidemic of the fever rages in the territory.

Cast:
Buster Crabbe as Dr. Robert Hammond, aka Junga
Charles B. Middleton as Rev. James Graham
Sheila Darcy as Betty Graham
Vince Barnett as Buckthorn the Guide
Weldon Heyburn as Bruce Kellogg
Robert Carson as Andy
Paul Scott as William Graham
Hal Price as Capt. Aleck
Floyd Shackelford as Friday
Directed by: Harry L. Fraser
Written by: Rita Douglas (story and screenplay)

Produced by:
Mervyn Freeman (associate producer)
Ted Richmond (producer)
George R. Batcheller Jr.
Cinematography:
Mervyn Freeman
Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by: Holbrook N. Todd
Music by: Albeto Colombo

Production Company: Producers Releasing Corporation
Distributed by: Producers Releasing Corporation

Release Date: 19 September 1941 (premiere)
Running Time: 63 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English