Jungle Jim - In the
Forbidden Land
Director: Lew Landers
Year: 1952
Rating: 5.0
This is the
eighth in the Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) series of sixteen films. I've
made it halfway! And no one has come to take me away. These are incredibly
low budget films, but to give them some mild credit they do come up with
a few interesting moments. Jim is also getting closer to being Tarzan with
clothes on. In this one he needs a mode of travel and tells his chimp to
go bring an elephant and he does. He lives out in the jungle by himself looking
I assume for his Jane. He nearly finds one here as the blonde anthropologist
Dr. Linda Roberts searches for him in order for him to lead her to the Land
of Giants. The missing link. But her boat is tipped over by hippos and all
the natives on the boat are killed and she drags herself to shore. Without
a thought for the dead men. She is about to be attacked by a black panther
when Tarzan kills it. Jungle Jim I mean. No real animals were hurt but that
stuffed animal took a beating.
He refuses to take her saying the Giant
people are savages. And he is not kidding as we see later. There are two
white hunters looking for ivory by killing elephants. In my mind, people
who hunt elephants for ivory or trophies are pretty much the lowest scum
in the world. As proof, the Trump brothers hunt for elephants. Sociopaths.
To get more elephants they have to drive them out of Giant Land into a pass
where they can be slaughtered. Don't worry they get their just desserts in
the end.
