''Jungle Man'' is a 1941 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring

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in his first of many films for

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. He is reunited with Charles B. Middleton from the

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serials. Cinematographer and associate producer Mervyn Freeman (1890–1965) was an experienced

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cameraman.

Plot summary

Bruce Kellogg and his friend Alex are off to Africa on an expedition to the "City of the Dead" that is actually footage of

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. Bruce's fiancée Betty and her father decide to go along to visit her father's brother James who is a missionary in the same part of Africa. Arriving at the Rev Graham's home they meet Dr Hammond who has spent five years developing a serum to a deadly fever that rages in the area. The results of his work are placed on a freighter to America that has been sunk by a submarine. As Alex and Bruce venture to the lost city, an epidemic of the fever rages in the territory.

Cast

as Dr. Robert Hammond, aka Junga * Charles B. Middleton as Rev. James Graham *

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as Betty Graham *

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as Buckthorn the Guide *

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as Bruce Kellogg * Robert Carson as Andy * Paul Scott as William Graham *

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as Capt. Aleck *

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as Friday

Production

The film had the

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of ''King of the Tropics''.p.1248 Hanson, Patricia King & Dunkleberger, Amy ''AFI: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States : Feature Films 1941-1950 Indexes, Volumes 1-2; Volume 4'' University of California Press, 01/06/1999 In 1951 it was retitled ''Drums of Africa'' as part of a package of PRC films now titled "Pictorial Films" that were sold to television.

Notes

External links

* * 1941 films 1940s English-language films American black-and-white films 1940s romance films 1941 adventure films Producers Releasing Corporation films Films directed by Harry L. Fraser American adventure films American romance films 1940s American films {{adventure-film-stub