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Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)

Directed by Ford Beebe

Adventure

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.

Rated NR | Length 71 minutes

Actors

Johnny Sheffield | Peggy Ann Garner | Onslow Stevens | Charles Irwin | Smoki Whitfield | Martin Wilkins | Blue Washington

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
11/19/2011TVBroadcastTV5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Maybe it’s the pain meds, or the rough week I had recovering from surgery. Whatever the reason, by this weekend I was pretty bored and indecisive about choosing movies to watch on Netflix or from my own library. When I was a kid and I was sick at home, I used to love curling up on the couch and watching whatever western, science fiction, horror, war or adventure movies were playing on TV.

That’s how I saw the majority of westerns and war movies; Hitchcock films and Charlie Chan crime capers; and certainly Tarzan movies.

So I decided to just switch over to the TV and watch whatever I could find there.

Lo and behold, I was present with a cheapie Tarzan knockoff from the late ‘40s, the first in a series of something like 10 Bomba films!

Bomba, like Tarzan, shows a lot of cultural and racial prejudices that were common at the time, no surprise there. Bomba is no Tarzan. He’s a younger (late teens) boy and he’s got his matching white girl (Bombette?) that he rescues, but most of the scenes are pretty slight and tiresome.

Still, I’d be interested in catching some more of the Bomba series at some point.

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