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Bomba, the Jungle Boy

"HE ALONE KNEW THE JUNGLE'S SECRET...ITS SAVAGE DANGERS!"

George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.

Top Cast

  • Johnny Sheffield

    Johnny Sheffield

    Bomba

  • Peggy Ann Garner

    Peggy Ann Garner

    Patricia 'Pat' Harland

  • Onslow Stevens

    Onslow Stevens

    George Harland

  • Charles Irwin

    Charles Irwin

    Andy Barnes

  • Smoki Whitfield

    Smoki Whitfield

    Eli

  • Martin Wilkins

    Martin Wilkins

    Mufti

  • Blue Washington

    Blue Washington

    Native Bearer (uncredited)

Overview

George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.

Rating

5.8 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Dec 11, 2024

    Intrepid explorers "George" (Onslow Stevens) and his feisty daughter "Patricia" (Peggy Ann Garner) are traipsing through the jungle taking photos when they espy something unexpected in their lenses. It's a boy! Clad in a loincloth and doing his own yodel-free "Tarzan" impersonation, they meet "Bomba" (Johnny Sheffield). He proves really quite useful to the pair when she manages to wander off and get herself lost and in deftly rescuing her, a friendship blossoms that happens to coincide with some shenanigans in the local village. As the young woman starts to take a shine to her new, fresh-faced, friend she regales him with tales of the city - but can he be tantalised or is he perfectly happy where he is? I found Sheffield to be an engaging performer in these jungle adventures that inject just a soupçon of moralising into a pretty straightforward adventure story that involves some lively stock-footage and just an hint of romance. It's maybe fifteen minutes too long, but it's still quite an amiable film that's of it's time, is quite watchable and tells us to beware of those marauding locusts!

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