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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

JUNGLE HELL 1956 (VCI)

This film answers the eternal question "How much stock footage can you really pit in a feature film?"

Sabu stars in this jungle epic about an Indian tribe that is threatened by a crazed leader and strange radioactive rocks. Despite all of the publicity, there is NO flying saucer in this film.

What you do get is David Bruce and K.T. Stevens as scientists who are trying to figure out the mystery of the rocks and Sabu trying to help them while also trying to not break the laws of his tribe.

I would guess there is about 20 minutes of stock footage of elephants which is fine except that the movies running time is only 82 minutes anyway!!

The story itself is fine, but the extra footage of wildlife really slows it down. This is made up of episodes of an unsold TV show starring the "jungle boy" and while I did find it an ok time passer, it could have been a lot shorter and much better.

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