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hwg1957-102-265704 'Jungle Man' or 'Drums Of Africa' is a low budget adventure set somewhere in Africa with a busy plot taking in a search for a lost city (a misplaced Angkor Wat!), a search for a cure for a tropical disease, a tribe on the warpath (though that plot line never develops) and a pack of lions invading a village, not to mention a vague love triangle. All flavoured with stock footage of cute or cantankerous animals. All that you want in a jungle picture. Except excitement.Buster Crabbe shows off his manly chest, Sheila Darcy shows off her womanly legs and Vince Barnett shows off his fine beard. Buster gets a chance also to show his swimming skills. Charles Middleton is rather sweet in a good performance as Rev. James, though to see him and Buster Crabbe sit down together in amity and not war with each other in interstellar space in a Flash Gordon serial was rather strange.Not that good but there are nice shots of elephants and hippos if you like that sort of thing.

Michael_Elliott Drums of Africa (1941) * 1/2 (out of 4) A group of people head out into the jungles of Africa in search of the "City of the Dead" but think jungles, the wild life and natives cause several problems. Buster Crabbe leads the cast and adds a little excitement to this film but overall it drags for the most part. There's a lot of stock footage of various jungle animals and this stuff is fun to watch but the actual "story" of the film is a dull and boring mess. Not to mention that the whole set up never really pays off.The film is on various public domain labels under the title Jungle Man.

reptilicus If we took movies like this seriously we would believe that the jungles of Africa are just loaded with lost cities. From the 1920 serial JUNGLE QUEEN right through TV shows like "Jungle Jim" and "Ramar of the Jungle" there was always some lost civilisation just over the next mountain. Such is the case in this movie also; hey if a plot point works why change it?This time out we have Bruce (Weldon Heyburn) and his pal Andy (Robert Carson) a couple of rich, bored yachtsmen who decide to abandon sailing regattas and head for Africa to search for The City of the Dead. Coming along are Bruce's fiancée Bety (Sheila Darcy) and her dad William (Paul Scott). William is hoping for a reunion with his brother (Charles Middleton) who became a missionary and has been in the jungle for many years. Now in real life any safari that has perennial comic relief actor Vince Barnett as guide normally would not have much of a chance but hey fascinating indeed are the things you can get away with in a movie.Also in the jungle is Dr. Robert Hammond (Buster Crabbe) who is known as "Junga" to the natives. They may have been enemies in the "Flash Gordon" serials at Universal but in this PRC picture Buster and Charles are the best of friends. Buster has been searching for the cure to a fatal disease the natives call "malaka" and has sent a sample of the serum he has developed to the States for testing. Sadly the ship carrying the serum is lost, " . . .sunk by a torpedo" as Middleton informs him (a vague reference to WW2 which the US was not yet involved in when this movie was made). I'll get back to this point later.Bruce and Andy head off looking for the lost city. Whoever lost it must not have looked for it very hard because they find it with relative ease; and does anyone besides me think that Lost City looks an awful lot like Angkor Wat? Along the way there are many problems like attacking lions, giant snakes, headhunters, and of course a sudden outbreak of malaka. Can Buster do anything to save the natives and the explorers? If only the serum were not lost when the ship went down! Ah but wait, that wreck may not be lost after all! But can Buster get to it in the shark infested waters? That would be telling! You'll see for yourself.The low budget shows. This movie uses tons of stock footage that looks to be about 10 years old or even more. Watch as the actors in this movie look offscreen and react to scenes of wildlife that look like they come from an early documentary. Performances are good despite the limitations. Vince Barnett is amusing while never getting annoying. Buster and Charles react well with each other. Sheila Darcy is quite good and for one scene she even gets to "go native" wearing a skimpy (well, by 1941 standards) sarong while she flirts with Buster.I had fun watching JUNGLE MAN and if you give it a chance and overlook its shortcomings I think you will too.

Chris Gaskin I've just watched Jungle Man for the first time and found fairly enjoyable, despite reading some bad reviews about it.A party, including a woman and her dad set off to Africa to search for The City of the Dead, located in the depths of one of the jungles there. They have to face several dangers on their way including lions, tigers, snakes and head hunters. When they do find it, they discover it a ruin and explore and take some film of it. On the way back to camp, the woman finds a lion cub and decides to take it with her. A big mistake as several lions then attack the camp looking for it. Everybody is OK at the end though.Jungle Man has extensive stock footage of animals and natives dancing but that didn't spoil my enjoyment.The cast includes former Tarzan actor Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton and Sheila Darcy.Though not brilliant, Jungle Man is a good way to spend an hour one afternoon.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.