''Tiger Fangs'' is a 1943 American

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directed by Sam Newfield and starring Frank Buck and

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. It was distributed

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director

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Plot

Frank Buck tangles with Nazis who have been doping tigers in Malaya, thereby making man-eaters of them. With the cats on a rampage, rubber production is seriously curtailed and the Allied war effort jeopardized. Buck and his associates, Peter Jeremy, Geoffrey MacCardle and Linda McCardle, thwart the Teutonic malefactors: the villainous Nazi Dr. Lang (

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) and his portly accomplice Henry Gratz. Thereafter, life is safe once again in the jungle.

Cast

* Frank Buck as Frank Buck *

as Linda McCardle *

Duncan Renaldo Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950–1956 American TV series ''The Cisco Ki ...

as Peter Jeremy * Howard Banks as Tom Clayton *

J. Farrell MacDonald John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. He appeared in over 325 films over a four-decade career from 1911 to 1951, and directed fort ...

as Geoffrey MacCardle * Alex Havier as Ali (credited as J. Alex Havier) *

as Dr. Lang *

Dan Seymour Dan Seymour (February 22, 1915 – May 25, 1993) was an American character actor who frequently played villains in Warner Bros. films. He appeared in several Humphrey Bogart films, including ''Casablanca'' (1942), ''To Have and Have Not'' ...

as Henry Gratz *

Pedro Regas Petros 'Pedro' Regas (born Panagiotis Thomas Regakos; April 18, 1897 – August 10, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles), a veteran stage actor, Regas was spotted on the Broadway stage by Mary Pickford who persuaded him to go to Hollywood and be ...

as Takko

Reception

“Juves should find this Frank Buck actioner exciting. It's a fiction piece, and not the usual jungle travelogue…

is as attractive a biologist as one could hope to meet up with in the middle of the jungle.” “The animal shots are eye-filling, as usual, and especially well photographed…They're convincing enough…to keep the younger generation glued to movie house seats. Sam Newfield directed with a good sense of melodramatic action, and it is Mr. Buck himself who gives the stand-out performance. The jungle fellow is a right natural actor.”Irene Thirer, New York Post, Nov 24, 1943

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External links

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Brian Taves, "Candidates for the National Film Registry: ''Fang and Claw'' and ''Tiger Fangs''"
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