Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Lawbolisted Powerful

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

malcolm-68 This is the only Bomba film in which Johnny Sheffield shares top billing with another actor namely chain smoking, overweight, disillusioned Wayne Morris. It is the only one of the series which does not have a human villain. Instead there is a rogue elephant who is leading the rest of the herd to commit mayhem. The crux of the drama is conflict between Bomba who is full of bombast and only wants to shoot the rogue elephant and Wayne Morris who is head of a government licensed group of hunters ordered to shoot the entire herd. The last few of the series injected a sliver of sex by inventing an excuse for the comely heroine,in this case Nancy Hale, to go for a dip with Bomba. They also share a couple of chaste kisses. The budget of this film must have been trimmed more than usual because much of the action is talked about or described rather than seen, but the climax packs a little excitement. Stock footage of wild animals abounds. The rest of the film is padded out with aimless trekking through the jungle in pursuit of the rogue elephant. The script contains gaps in logic and continuity and most of the characters display a lack of common sense. Sheffield fits the role and his loin cloth comfortably. On the strength of Wayne Morris's appearance in this film, the title could have been changed to "Lard of the Jungle". After viewing this effort, it is doubtful if anyone exclaimed, "We could be talking Oscars here!"

moonspinner55 Good clean fun. Johnny Sheffield retired his loincloth and vine rope with this twelfth and final entry in the "Bomba" series, started in 1949 by writer-producer-director Ford Beebe and Monogram Pictures (by now transformed into Allied Artists). It was appropriately timed, of course, as Sheffield no longer looks like a Jungle Boy, apt to running away from the girls after a chaste kiss. Here, Bomba attempts to stop elephant hunters sent by the government to kill a wild herd, convinced that one rogue pachyderm is responsible for leading the others astray. Beebe's method of inter-cutting stock wildlife footage with the African-set adventures usually results in a visual hodgepodge; with "Lord", however, the editing is pretty sharp, particularly during the exciting climax. Bomba and a stubborn young woman from London became fast friends (complete with a romantic moonlight smooch), though he ends up aiding her in a reconciliation with her bleeding-heart fiancé and walks away with his standard friendly wave. Amusingly, no female was ever able to topple this lord of the jungle! **1/2 from ****

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** In this the last of the "Bomba the Jungle Boy" films Bomba, Johnny Sheffield,takes it upon himself to bring a murderous rouge elephant named Raju to justice. Raju who's become wild and crazy from eating contaminated, from DDT, weeds and ended up leading or forcing his heard of elephant to go nuts attacking and killing a number of the local native population.Bomba who comes on the scene to help catch and kill Raju is shocked to find out that it's been decided by the county's High Commissioner to kill the entire heard of elephants along with Raju! Knowing that the land where the elephants are grazing at or around belonged to Bomba's British parents the Hastings he uses that technicality,in that it now belongs to him, to have the animals driven or kept on to his land and thus prevent them from being exterminated by the white hunters lead by Jeff Wood, Wayne Morris, assigned by "The Commish" to gun them them all down to the last elephant!Raju for his part goes on,with his band of elephants followers, rampaging through the jungle killing among others Bomba's native friend Molu,Joel Fluellen, and his infant child leaving his wife, Juanita Moore, a widow before her 21th birthday. Bomba still has a hard time convincing the local authorities that it's Raju not those elephants with him who's responsible for all this carnage but time is running out with bands of white and native hunters descending into Bomba country to wipe out the entire elephant herd. As a side story there's also the spunky and pretty Mona Hammond, Nancy Hale, who traveled to Bomba Country to find her husband known by the natives as the "Great White Witch Doctor" Lewis Hammond. Lewis gave up a lucrative medical practice back in London to save those, in the African bush, who could never afford much less get his help or services! ***SPOILERS*** The film reaches a wild and bloody crescendo with the rampaging Raju tearing the jungle apart with Bomba's good friend Deputhy Commissioner Andy Barnes(Leonard Mudie), after Bomba gave him back the gun he stole from him, gunning down the rouge elephant and finally putting an end to all this madness! Still Bomba has to prove that it was only the now dead Raju who was the reason for all this death and destruction. It's then that Bomba organizes an elephant parade in front of Deputy Commissioner's Barnes headquarters to prove just how harmless and friendly the maligned by almost everyone in the movie, with the exception of Bomba and Mona, elephants were.

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.