Bomba: The Jungle Boy

1949
Approved
1h 10m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

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Peggy Ann Garner and Johnny Sheffield in Bomba: The Jungle Boy (1949)

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George Harland and his daughter, Patricia, are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Patricia become lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fi... Read allGeorge Harland and his daughter, Patricia, are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Patricia become lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.George Harland and his daughter, Patricia, are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Patricia become lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

356

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This was the first of 12 features, made over a six-year period (1949-55), starring Johnny Sheffield as Bomba that were made by "Poverty Row" studio Monogram Pictures. Sheffield had made his last Tarzan movie two years earlier. After the last Bomba feature was made in 1955, it would mark the end of Sheffield's film career.

Goofs
When Peggy Ann Garner rips her skirt, she asks Bomba to get her a leopard skin to wear. He returns with a large, loose skin and, when he hands it to her, she goes behind a tree and emerges in an obviously designed and sewn costume.

Quotes
Patricia Harland: I think I'd better get out of here. Before I decide to stay the rest of my life.
Bomba: Not like home?
Patricia Harland: That's just it. I like it too much.
Bomba: Why not stay? All good here. All friends.
Patricia Harland: Don't try to talk me into it. It'd be too easy.

Connections
Followed by Bomba on Panther Island (1949)

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Cute, worth, deverves to be disvovered again....

I discovered BOMBA in the late eighties, thru my US VHS provider. Never heard of it before, the same with JUNGLE JIM character and movie series too. If you love TARZAN, you should,I say YOU SHOULD, like this cute series of movies, and not episodes, unlike JUNGLE JIM, which existed both in movie theaters and on TV. So back to this series of films made of course in Monogram studio lots, and certainly not on locations, it is fun, full of animals, natives, villains, celluloid jungle. OK, when you have seen one, you can consider you have seen the other ones, but for your kids, even now, in 2023, it would be better than Iphone silly and disturbing, insane games.