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Jungle Jim number 6:
Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) saves the life of Cameron (William
Henry), whose plane just crashed in the jungle, and then lets himself be
persuaded to help Cameron to find his friend Professor Dunham (Joel
Friedkin), who in turn was last seen looking for the legendary Okongo, an animal
that looks like a pony that is partially painted as a zebra (and that's
probably exactly what it is) that one tribe of (white) natives worship as
their god.
Soon, Jim and Cameron are joined on their expedition by white native
girl Leta (Sherry Moreland), who is looking for the men of her teribe who
were abducted by a group of gangsters and made to hunt Okongoes - and it
seems the good professor is one of them - though later it will turn out
that he was actually kidnapped by the gangsters, who want him to produce a
narcotic only found in the Okongo's glands (what ?).
Eventually our trio of adventurers has to cross a desert in which Jim
has to fight a (very unconvincing) giant spider, later he also has to
fight a leopard ... and then Cameron turns evil when he is revealed to be
not a caring friend of the professor but the boss of our Okongo-stealing
gangsters. Soon enough too Cameron and his men have captured Jungle Jim
and made him to help them Okongo-hunting ... but Leta makes it back to her
tribe, or rather the women of her tribe, and in the finale during a
sandstorm Leta's women attack the gangsters while the captured men of her
tribe and Jungle Jim rebel, and in the end the gangsters are overthrown
and everything is back to normal in the Congo that is obviously inhabited
only by whites ...
I have to admit, this is a bad to ridiculous film (the Jungle Jim-films
tend to be), but as other films of the series, it has a so-bad-it's-good
feel to it, and if you can enjoy a film exactly for its shortcomings,
you'll e greatly rewarded ...
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