Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Lawbolisted Powerful

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

classicsoncall I was a little curious about Johnny Sheffield's age when he made this picture so I had to take a look. Turns out he was about twenty four, which might have been a hint that Bomba the Jungle Boy wouldn't work as a character much longer. Later on in the story hunter Jeff Wood (Wayne Morris) called him a junior ape man making it sound kind of derogatory. I guess it was time to call it quits.The story isn't too bad, Bomba shows his mettle in protecting a herd of elephants that hunters have been authorized to kill by the territorial commissioner due to their destructive rampages. Turns out however that it was a lone rogue elephant responsible for the havoc, so Bomba intends to single him out as the bad guy. There was a running theme that Bomba actually owned the land that the elephants were living on by virtue of his parents having settled and worked there. I don't know how one would lay claim to jungle property but everyone seemed to accept it in the story.I'm not certain how far back one would have to go in film history to credit the first time it happened, I'm sure Tarzan had his fair share of vine swing saves the way Bomba did here with pretty Mona Andrews (Nancy Hale). It always brings to mind what most modern viewers recall about Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. She didn't kiss him however, that actually happened earlier in the picture, and it was Bomba planting an innocent peck on the cheek of Miss Andrews.The one thing I did find hilarious in the film had to do with the African native drum talk, especially when Molu (Joel Fluellen) rapped his drum exactly the same way each time, and each time it meant something different. That was in the same league as all those Westerns in which Indian tribes communicate by smoke signals, or better yet, each time Tonto communicated with the Lone Ranger with identical hand waves under entirely different circumstances. How can you possibly interpret that?

utgard14 The last in the Bomba series starring Johnny Sheffield. This also happens to be the last film of Sheffield's career, as he wisely retired after this. The plot to this one has Bomba trying to stop a rogue elephant in order to prevent an entire herd from being slaughtered by government-sanctioned hunters. The idea that one elephant can essentially lead a herd of them into doing things they don't want to do seems pretty out there but it's best to just go with it. Also this movie introduces the fact that Bomba OWNS the African jungle he inhabits, apparently because his birth father bought it. How this was never mentioned in any of the other movies is beyond me but, again, just go with it.In addition to Sheffield and regulars Leonard Mudie and Smoki Whitfield, there's a portly Wayne Morris as one of the hunters and Nancy Hale as the niece of Bomba's friend Andy Barnes. She has an obligatory swimming scene, as most of the girls in this series did. Wayne Morris is far removed from his days as a leading man for Warner Bros. If it weren't for his distinctive voice, I might have mistaken him for George Kennedy here. There's even more stock footage than usual in this entry. It's used well and the action scenes with the elephants are good. There are also more scenes of Bomba swinging through the jungle than normal. The Bomba series is not one of my favorites and it is certainly far below the quality of the Tarzan movies Sheffield co-starred in with Johnny Weissmuller. Still, most of them are enjoyable enough and this is a good end to the series.

bkoganbing Johnny Sheffield finished both the Bomba The Jungle Boy series and his career with Lord Of The Jungle. In this one the Bomba series takes a plot that could have been one from the Tarzan series where back in his adolescence Sheffield had been Boy.Like Tarzan, Bomba has an affinity for pachyderms. But the local herd has been running wild lately, trampling through villages, destroying property and killing people. Most atypical behavior for elephants who are herbivores and won't attack people unless they're attacked.In a story that could also have been taken from any number of westerns about a wild horse herd, Bomba suspects that a rogue has taken over the lead of the herd. No reason to kill all of his friends if the rogue is done in. But how to do it?I would suspect the Bomba series ended for a number of reasons. The writers were not coming up with fresh story lines as witness by this retreaded western. B picture stuff like the Bomba series was showing up on television. Finally Johnny Sheffield was clearly no longer juvenile looking enough to be a jungle boy. So Sheffield quit acting and apparently lived happily ever after.Nothing special about Lord Of The Jungle, decent viewing though.

Chris Gaskin Lord of the Jungle was the last of the 12 Bomba movies starring Johnny Sheffield as Bomba.In this last movie, a large group of elephants are on the rampage in the jungle, destroying native villages and killing people. Some hunters go to track them down and kill them. Not if Bomba has anything to do with it. He blames these attacks on just one elephant, the leader of the group. With the help of one of the hunters, he manages to track the leader down and the hunter kills him and the rest of the group disperse.Like all the Bomba movies I have seen so far, I found Lord of the Jungle enjoyable.I'm lucky to have a source to get these movies from as they are all hard to get hold of.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.