Jungle Menace
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| Jungle Menace | |
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 Photograph of star Frank Buck |
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| Directed by | Harry L. Fraser George Melford |
| Produced by | Robert Mintz executive Louis Weiss |
| Written by | George M. Merrick Sherman Lowe Harry Hoyt George Melford George Rosener Arthur Hoerl Dallas M. Fitzgerald Gordon Griffith |
| Starring | Frank Buck Reginald Denny LeRoy Mason Richard Tucker Duncan Renaldo |
| Cinematography | Edward Linden Herman Schopp |
| Editing by | Earl Turner |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 26 October 1937 June 1946 |
| Running time | 15 chapters (308 min) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Jungle Menace (1937) is a Columbia movie serial. It was the first serial released by Columbia Pictures.
Based on the success of Republic's 1936 serial Darkest Africa, starring real-life animal trainer Clyde Beatty, Columbia made this exotic jungle serial starring real-life animal collector Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck. Set in the fictional land of Seemang in Asia, Frank Buck plays Frank Hardy, a soldier of fortune who intervenes in and investigates attempts to run a rubber plantation owner and his daughter off their land.
In 1946 material from this serial was re-edited into the 70-minute feature film Jungle Terror.
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- Frank Buck as Frank Hardy, Soldier of fortune
- Reginald Denny as Ralph Marshall
- LeRoy Mason as 'Murphy'
- Richard Tucker as Robert Banning
- Duncan Renaldo as 'Roget'
- William Bakewell as Tom Banning
- Charlotte Henry as Dorothy Elliott, the plantation owner's daughter
- Matthew Betz as Detective Lieutenant Starrett
- Sasha Siemel as 'Tiger' Van Dorn
- George Rosener as The Professor
- John Davidson as 'Doctor' Coleman
- Robert Warwick as Chief Inspector Angus MacLeod
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| Preceded by none |
Columbia Serial Jungle Menace (1937) |
Succeeded by The Mysterious Pilot (1929) |
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