Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Red-Barracuda This is the third jungle adventure I have seen from director Harry Fraser. The other two were The White Gorilla and The Savage Girl. This one, Drums of Africa, is at best marginally better than those other two. Harry sure knew how to knock out shoddy product in this genre. Like the other two films, this one is full of stock footage of wild animals. Although I don't really mind this as this footage is always kind of quite good fun to watch. In fact some of the scenes with the lions and tigers were actually pretty good, especially where some guy wrestles with them. Impressive stuff. My main gripe about the movie would most probably be its rubbish story line. There's a thread about a lost city, a fatal disease and a multiple lion attack. Nothing wrong with having a few things going on, but with the exception of the lion attack, the other story elements are dealt with very half-heartedly. The lost city turns out to be, you guessed it, more stock footage; this time hilariously it's shots of Angkor Wat which is of course in Asia. It just goes to show the things that they could get away with back in the 40's. Also, on that subject, I could never quite understand why there was a tiger in the middle of the African jungle. I think they just included it because they had it. The deadly killer disease is the other plot thrust of the story. And it's this that explains the presence of Buster Crabbe's doctor character in the middle of the jungle. He's there to find an antidote and help the natives. But this too is pretty lacklustre, and it really is hard to care very much about this plot element at all.Drums of Africa is a pretty poor jungle adventure overall. It's not completely devoid of entertainment though.

dbborroughs weak jungle adventure has a rich heiress, her fiancé, her father and assorted others going to Africa instead of their normal vacation haunt, in order to visit her father's brother and to find the lost city of the dead. Once there they run into Buster Crabbe who is trying to cure an epidemic, hostile natives and wild animals.Incredibly silly and cheap film has tons of stock footage padding out the proceedings. Who am I to ponder what Asian temples are doing in Darkest Africa? Its a mess. Blame the script and the direction which doesn't seem to know what to do or how real people behave. I mean Crabbe goes around with his shirt half open, out heroine prances around in sarongs for no good reason, the natives just look embarrassed. The cast is wildly uneven with some of the interlopers behaving badly while on the other end of the spectrum Charles Middleton as the uncle in the jungle turning in one of his best performances.This film is a mess. Recommended only for bad movie fans.

JohnHowardReid The synopsis for "Drums of Africa" (1941) certainly sounds noirishly inviting: "Buster Crabbe leads an expedition to the heart of Africa in hopes of finding the fabled City of the Dead." The movie's USA release title was "Jungle Man". And according to the synopsis in the TV Source Book, "Tarzan (Buster Crabbe) foils the man-eating beasts that are trailing a beautiful girl (Sheila Darcy) in the jungle." Both synopses are wrong on all counts! Buster is not Tarzan. Nor does he lead a safari! Yet, would you believe, The New York Daily News gave this one two stars! For those not in the know, that particular newspaper was not over-generous with stars. "King's Row" received only three stars, "Gone With the Wind", four! Well, this compendium of wild life stock shots is not worth half a star, let alone two! True, Mr Crabbe smiles a lot and flexes his muscles for his fans, while Miss Darcy commendably puts into practice her belief that the proper attire for jungle wear is a South Seas sarong. Charles Middleton, none the worse for his previous encounters with Buster, is no longer Ming, the Merciless, but Missionary, the Lovable! And of course we never see the City of the Dead. All we get instead are two postcard photos of Angkor Vat! There needs to be a rating less than zero for a minus film like this one!

Thomas Fasulo If someone can figure out the plot for this movie, please let me know. The story line jumps all over the place, except during the many times when stock footage is shown to make the movie longer - way too much longer. The "City of the Dead" is so obviously Asian (perhaps Anwat) that I was surprised they had the gall to show it in this "African jungle" movie. That was also stock footage as the actors and the "City" are never seen together. The budget for this movie was probably a couple of hundred dollars. I like Buster Crabbe, but I was hoping the sharks would kill him in this movie.