Jungle Adventures 12 Movie Pack

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Mixed quality films from 30s and 40s

Jungle Adventures 12 Movie Pack
Starring: Buster Crabbe , Clyde Beatty , Frank Buck , Leif Erickson , and Arthur O'Connell
Director: Harry C. Fraser , Jean Yarbrough , and Sam Newfield
Manufacturer: St. Clair Vision
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Hollywood Adventure Film Series: Jungle Siren/Jungle Man/Forbidden Jungle/Nabonga/Sheena

ASIN: B000H5U6ES
Release Date: 2006-10-17

Customer Reviews:

Cheaper: Buy the dozen.......2007-09-11

I've gotten defective discs on some ST. CLAIR box sets. Video transfers can be lacking in clarity and brightness, with compression too obvious in spots. "You get what you pay for" is the rule of thumb here.

JUNGLE trivia:

A supporting cast member in BLONDE SAVAGE, John Dehner, was once an animation assistant for Walt Disney. Dehner also starred on radio as Paladin in HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL.

Ivan Tors, producer of such TV series as FLIPPER, SEA HUNT and GENTLE BEN, appears in ESCAPE FROM ANGOLA with his entire family in tow.

LAW OF THE JUNGLE's director, Jean Yarbrough, also worked with Abbott & Costello. Supporting actor Feodor Chaliapin Jr. was the son of a very famous Russian opera star.

THE LION MAN was written by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

THE LOST JUNGLE is an edited-down movie serial. It stars Clyde Beatty, who was a real-life big game hunter and lion tamer. Beatty fronted his own traveling circus, and performed an act where he entered a cage filled with up to 40 animals of several species, including lions, tigers, cougars and hyenas.

TARZAN THE FEARLESS is another whittled-down movie serial. This was Buster Crabbe's only portrayal of Tarzan. Crabbe did star as a generic king of the jungle in a few other films.

Frank Buck ("TIGER FANGS") was a hunter and animal collector. Buck was also a movie actor, director, writer and producer. He appeared in several jungle-related films including AFRICA SCREAMS, with Abbott & Costello. Buck's co-star here, Duncan Renaldo portrayed the Cisco Kid on TV.

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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.4) Blonde Savage (1947) - Leif Erickson/Gale Sherwood/Frank Jenks/John Dehner
(4.3) Drums of Africa ("Jungle Man") (1941) - Buster Crabbe/Charles Middleton
(2.9) Escape from Angola (1976) - Stan Brock/Ann Collings/Ivan Tors
(3.8) Forbidden Jungle (1950) - Don C. Harvey/Forrest Taylor/Alyce Lewis
(5.7) Jungle Bride (1933) - Anita Page/Charles Starrett
(5.4) Law of the Jungle (1942) - Arlene Judge/John 'Dusty' King/Arthur O'Connell/Mantan Moreland/Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
(5.8) The Lion Man (1936) - Kathleen Burke/Jon Hall/Ted Adams/Richard Carlyle
(3.8) The Lost Jungle (1934) - Clyde Beatty/Wes Warner/Cecilia Parker
(4.0) Savage Girl (1932) - Rochelle Hudson/Walter Byron/Adolph Milar
(5.4) Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938) - Bruce Bennett/Ula Holt/Frank Baker
(4.1) Tarzan the Fearless (TV-1964) - Buster Crabbe/Julie Bishop/Philo McCullough
(5.3) Tiger Fangs (1943) - Frank Buck/June Duprez/Duncan Renaldo

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TARZAN (5 Movies on 2 Discs) is a nicely-priced collection of public domain jungle-themed movies.

Mixed quality films from 30s and 40s.......2007-03-27

These films are of mixed visual quality, though the audio seems okay. The twelve films included are as follows:

Tiger Fangs (1943)
The Lost Jungle (1934)
Lion Man (1936)
Escape from Angola (1976)
Drums of Africa (1941)
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
Savage Girl (1932)
Blonde Savage (1947)
Forbidden Jungle (1950)
Jungle Bride (1933)
Law of the Jungle (1942)
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)

The set also includes some stills of Jungle posters, a short feature called "Lure of the Jungle" and a couple of radio episodes of the Tarzan series "The Diamond of Asher)

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Brother Bonding Road Movie

12 Bucks
Starring: Scott Waugh , Sean Graham (II) , Ming-Na , Irene Bedard , and Ernest Borgnine
Director: Wayne Isham
Manufacturer: Ventura Distribution
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let's be honest.......2006-08-07

This is a low-budget pic with an annoyingly arty directoral style, and extremely bad acting. A must to avoid.

Brother Bonding Road Movie.......2002-09-09

"12 Bucks" was a pleasant surprise for me. While not a perfect movie, I found the story poignant, the film moving, and the actors excellent. As the story begins, we see two small boys watching tv cartoons. The cartoon guy gets a gun to his head, a hole the size of a donut blown in his temple, falls over and then gets up. When dad begins abusing the cocaine-intoxicated mother, the kids get a gun that's been left out and blow daddy's brains out. As the police are taking the kids away, the one says, "Why didn't he get up?" It's a perfect comment on the effect of violence in entertainment to which we allow our children to be subjected. From there the story leaps forward to where the boy who's pulled the trigger who has been in foster care and prison comes to see his little brother who's been adopted by well-to-do Californians and is in college. Two unknowns are the leads, Scott Waugh as the younger sheltered Johnny and Sean Graham as the street-smart Tanner. Tanner convinces Johnny to come with him to a hearing in Hollywood. Johnny falls asleep and wakes to find Tanner has taken him into the desert on the way to Hollywood, Florida rather than Hollywood, California. Thus begins the road adventure. Starting the cross country journey with only 12 bucks, we see some of Tanner's cons to get money and hear Johnny's condemnations about his brother's methods. Some of the picture does not hang together. About two-thirds of the way through, the moralistic Johnny and the street-smart Tanner unexplainedly seem to trade natures. The brothers pull a lost dog con to gain entrance to the house where two sisters played by Ming-Na Wen and Irene Bedard live. After some hot tub romance, Johnny nears a breakdown and the great reversal in the movie plot is revealed. The film ends with the brothers bonding and reunited in their sort-of family relationship. Sean Graham is extremely watchable as the street smart Tanner. With the various levels in the film, he shows himself an actor with great potential. Ernest Borgnine makes a brief appearance. This movie is somewhat of a sleeper, not your obvious choice. There is sex and violence, but presented with a reason. Seek this one out!

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