Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Bomba, the Jungle Boy

20/3/1949 1h 11m 5.6/10

Overview

George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.

Director

Ford Beebe

Top Billed Cast

Martin Wilkins

Martin Wilkins

Mufti

Johnny Sheffield

Johnny Sheffield

Bomba

Peggy Ann Garner

Peggy Ann Garner

Patricia 'Pat' Harland

Onslow Stevens

Onslow Stevens

George Harland

Charles Irwin

Andy Barnes

Smoki Whitfield

Smoki Whitfield

Eli

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

12/11/2024

6/10

Intrepid explorers "George" (Onslow Stevens) and his feisty daughter "Patricia" (Peggy Ann Garner) are traipsing through the jungle taking photos when they espy something unexpected in their lenses. It's a boy! Clad in a loincloth and doing his own yodel-free "Tarzan" impersonation, they meet "Bomba" (Johnny Sheffield). He proves really quite useful to the pair when she manages to wander off and get herself lost and in deftly rescuing her, a friendship blossoms that happens to coincide with some shenanigans in the local village. As the young woman starts to take a shine to her new, fresh-faced, friend she regales him with tales of the city - but can he be tantalised or is he perfectly happy where he is? I found Sheffield to be an engaging performer in these jungle adventures that inject just a soupçon of moralising into a pretty straightforward adventure story that involves some lively stock-footage and just an hint of romance. It's maybe fifteen minutes too long, but it's still quite an amiable film that's of it's time, is quite watchable and tells us to beware of those marauding locusts!

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