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Jungle Jim number 9:
Now this one combines a lot of elements from all over the place:
There's a tribe worshipping the voodoo tiger, despite the fact that
there aren't any tigers in Africa (something that's even mentioned in the
film - despite the fact that previous Jungle Jim movies did occasionally
contain tigers -, but a comprehensive explanation is never given), then
there's scientist Phyllis Bruce (Jean Byron) who studies tigers and thinks
she might find some in voodoo country. Then there's exotic dancer
Shalimar (Jean Dean), who always carries a tamed tiger with her, and throw
in Schultz (Michael Fox), a Nazi who knows the hiding place of some huge
art treasure and a trio of art thieves (James Seay, John L.Cason, Paul
Hoffman) who want to get their hands on the treasure, plus Jungle Jim
(Johnny Weissmuller), who is supposed to secure the treasure for the
gouvernment and you have one silly jungle adventure.
The story goes pretty much like this: On the run from pretty much
everybody, Nazi Schultz highjacks a plane that before you know it
crashlands in voodoo country, and the voodooists have caputred all
survivors in no time and want to sacrifice them, if it wasn't for
Shalimar, one of the passengers on the plane, and her tiger who only
listens to her - and soon enough, she does her exotic dance routines for
the natives ...
Of course, both Jungle Jim's party (which also includes Doc Phyllis
Bruce) and the artthieves have ventured into voodoo country to get their
hands on Schultz, but while Jim's party soon falls captive to the
voodooists, the artthieves have brought their own natives to keep the
voodooists at bay.
Ultimately, Jim is forced to fight a lion in a cage, and kills the
animal only thanks to a knife his pet chimp has smuggled to him. Then
Shalimar's tiger, who has roamed the territory in the meantime, arrives at
the scene and when Shalimar orders him to attack the natives, they all
hide in a hut from their sacred animal - which gives Jim and company,
including the survivors from the planecrash, an opportunity to slip away
... Only Schultz somehow falls into the clutches of the artthieves. Later,
Jim and company manage to free Schultz, while the artthieves are killed by
the voodooists - who somehow are no longer afraid of their natives
anymore.
With the voodooists still in hot pursuit, Jim and company blow up the
only entrance to voodoo country using dynamite that was set up by the
artthieves to blow Jim's group to Kingdom Come, and everything it seems is
fine again, with even Schultz now ready to give away the location of the
treasure ...
Of course, the film makes about as much sense as my synopsis, and
especially its depiction of voodoo is dead-wrong (there simply are no
voodoo tigers, period), plus all natives once more played by white men is
at least a bit silly, and Weissmuller is of course wooden as ever ... but
all that said, as a cheap and cheesy jungle pic, the film's still lots of
fun, if you are able to not take it at all seriously that is ...
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