Friday, July 3, 2009

Jungle Jim (1948)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by William Berke
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(VHS, GoodTimes)

The first of apparently 16 Jungle Jim films. Johnny Weissmuller is basically "Tarzan in clothes", he talks the same as Tarzan, does the same things (fights alligators, etc.), but does not do a Tarzan yell. This entry is ridiculously padded with stock footage of animals from an old documentary. We get numerous diversions that have nothing to do with the story like synchronized diving and dog tricks. After all of that, it is still barely an hour in length.

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