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In a native vilalge in the Indian jungle, a stone is found that burns
the hands of everyone who touches it - and witch doctor Shankar (Maji)
immediately claims it is some kind of sacred stone and that he alone has
the cure for the burns ... which is of course nonsense, since local white
man Doctor Morrison (David Bruce) soon enough realizes the stone must be
uranium, and he has a salve handy against uranium burns. Then Morrison
writes to England and invites Dr Ames (K.T.Stevens) over to India to
investigate. Dr Ames' plane though crashes in the jungle, and it's up to
jungle boy Sabu to save ... her, as Dr Ames now turns out to be a woman.
Once the woman doctor is saved, she, Morrison and Sabu go to the place
where the stone was found for scientific purposes - while a friend of
Ames, Trosk (George E.Stone) has persuaded a native (Robert Cabal) to lead
him there in hopes of finding a rich uranium ore. Anyways, both
expeditions are slowed down by herdes of elephants constantly crossing
their path. Finally though they reach their aim and decide to take a nap.
But in this very night, Trosk decides to steal the uranium, but is killed
by a tiger and ... the end.
Not quite the end actually, over some location shots Sabu tells us that
botht he elephants and the tigers were actually controlled by aliens
(shots of an unconvincing UFO were thrown into the film at random moments
every now and again) who were trying to guard the uranium ore and that Doc
Morrison and Doc Ames married later on and founded a science center in
India.
Does the film make any more sense now ?
Nope.
I have said it several times before: I love cheap jungle pics ... but
this one was too mucheven for me: The storyline was downright silly and
didn't make any sense, which was not at all helped by elephant-stock
footage that made up about half the movie without any narrative reason to
it, the ending - meaning the tiger killing Trosk - is disappointing to say
the least, Sabu's off-screen narration at the beginning and the end of the
film bears little connection to the actual movie, and the whole thing
about the UFO ... now what was that all about ?
That all said, the film might still be mildly amusing for bad movie
lovers, just don't expect too much of it ...
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