Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Name: Bomba, the Jungle Boy
Genre: Adventure
Released: 1949-03-20
Rating: 0
Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens

Released Mar 20, 1949

1h 10m

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Father-and-daughter photographers (Onslow Stevens, Peggy Ann Garner) find a teenage boy (Johnny Sheffield) living wild in Africa.

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Silly, campy, but watchable. Despite the endless reaction shots to grainy stock footage of wild animals.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/26/24

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Johnny Sheffield, who played "Boy" in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films, got to play a teenage version of Tarzan himself in this, the first of the Bomba films. Much like the later Tarzan film, this film is also a rather cheaply and poorly made film. A photographer and his teenage daughter visit the African jungles and discover Bomba, the jungle boy, who helps the daughter when she gets lost in the jungle and the two face many trials.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Ford Beebe

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Johnny Sheffield

Bomba

Peggy Ann Garner

Patricia Harland

Onslow Stevens

George Harland

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Synopsis

Father-and-daughter photographers (Onslow Stevens, Peggy Ann Garner) find a teenage boy (Johnny Sheffield) living wild in Africa.

Director: Ford Beebe
Production Co: Monogram Pictures Corporation
Genre: Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 20, 1949, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2009
Runtime: 1h 10m

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