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Forbidden Jungle (1950)iMDB Rating: 3.9
Date Released : 2 March 1950
Genre : Action, Adventure
Stars : Don C. Harvey, Forrest Taylor, Alyce Lewis, Robert Cabal
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB

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A hunter is hired to take an expedition deep into the African jungle to search for a white boy lost in a plane crash years before, and who has been rumored to be living among the wild animals.

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FORBIDDEN JUNGLE (Robert Emmett Tansey, 1950) *1/2

I'd never heard of this one when I came upon it at my local DVD rental outlet via the cheap Alpha edition; since I wasn't even familiar with any of the personnel involved, I didn't have much confidence in the film being any good – but still told myself I'd get to watch the thing someday based solely on its intriguing title and lurid poster (a gorilla carrying a scantily-clad woman)!

However, I was laughing myself silly all the way through it – starting from the very opening shot, given the incredibly obvious studio-bound look of the jungle! The film was clearly a very cheap production and one that was poorly scripted and made into the bargain: not only is it padded with relentless stock footage (most of which is irrelevant to begin with, especially the would-be comic antics of a trio of monkeys) but it's truly bottom-of-the-barrel fare on a par with the Ed Wood films, though hardly as zanily inspired. Suffice to say that it makes the classic (but often juvenile and clichéd) black-and-white Tarzan films look like works of art in comparison!

Anyway, the narrative involves a search for a mysterious jungle boy (sounds familiar?) by a rugged hunter: amusingly, he's seen countless times wiping his brow from the heat and fatigue while trekking through the jungle – even if it's the natives who do all the hard work…including carrying a caged tiger he brought over from India! Of course, some rich man from the civilized world is claiming kinship with the boy – but, as it transpires, the hunter-turned-missionary who raised him all these years is also a relation. The hunter is bewildered by what he sees – cue recurring daft monologues about how he's only in it for the money (an attitude which, needless to say, has changed by the end of the film…especially after the jungle boy has saved his life and he's had his health restored by a young girl, one of the natives at the mission!).

The last third of the 66-minute running-time, then, is taken up by scenes in which, let loose by the mischievous monkeys, the tiger is seen almost battling – so ludicrous is the blending of stock footage and pitiful 'special effects' – (yet winning, every single bout and in no time at all!) an assortment of jungle creatures i.e. panther, wildebeest, gorilla and python. The film should perhaps truly rate a BOMB – but I hadn't watched a vintage 'amateur hour' piece such as this in a dog's age that I managed to have a modicum of fun at it regardless…