''Jungle Heat'' is a 1957 American
adventure film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch (April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American film producer and director. He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was involved in the production and direction of numerous films th ...
and written by Jameson Brewer. The film stars
Lex Barker
Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. (May 8, 1919 – May 11, 1973), known as Lex Barker, was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953 and portraying leading characters from Karl May' ...
,
Mari Blanchard
Mari Blanchard (born Mary E. Blanchard, April 13, 1923 – May 10, 1970) was an American film and television actress, known foremost for her roles as a B movie'' femme fatale'' in American productions of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Early life a ...
,
James Westerfield
James A. Westerfield (March 22, 1913 – September 20, 1971) was an American character actor of stage, film, and television.
Early life
Westerfield was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to candy-maker Brasher Omier Westerfield and his wife Do ...
,
Glenn Langan
Glenn Langan (July 8, 1917 – January 26, 1991) was an American character actor on stage and films.
Early years
Born in Denver, Colorado, Langan was the son of Thomas Langan and Kate Quinn Langan. He attended schools there. His early training i ...
and Miyoko Sasaki. The film was released on July 22, 1957, by
United Artists
United Artists (UA) is an American film production and film distribution, distribution company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In its original operating period, it was founded in February 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford an ...
.
The film was shot on
Kauai, Hawaii
Kauai (), anglicized as Kauai ( or ), is one of the main Hawaiian Islands.
It has an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km2), making it the fourth-largest of the islands and the List of islands of the United States by area, 21st-largest ...
back to back with ''
Voodoo Island''.
[Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 p 391-392]
Plot
Prior to the
attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Territory of ...
, Japanese infiltrators attempt to turn Hawaiian labourers against American plantation owners.
Cast
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Lex Barker
Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. (May 8, 1919 – May 11, 1973), known as Lex Barker, was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953 and portraying leading characters from Karl May' ...
as Dr. Jim Ransom
*
Mari Blanchard
Mari Blanchard (born Mary E. Blanchard, April 13, 1923 – May 10, 1970) was an American film and television actress, known foremost for her roles as a B movie'' femme fatale'' in American productions of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Early life a ...
as Ann McRae
*
James Westerfield
James A. Westerfield (March 22, 1913 – September 20, 1971) was an American character actor of stage, film, and television.
Early life
Westerfield was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to candy-maker Brasher Omier Westerfield and his wife Do ...
as Harvey Mathews
*
Glenn Langan
Glenn Langan (July 8, 1917 – January 26, 1991) was an American character actor on stage and films.
Early years
Born in Denver, Colorado, Langan was the son of Thomas Langan and Kate Quinn Langan. He attended schools there. His early training i ...
as Roger McRae
*Miyoko Sasaki as Kimi-San Grey
*
Rhodes Reason
Rhodes Reason (April 19, 1930 – December 26, 2014) was an American actor who appeared in more than 200 roles in television, film, and stage.
Film and television career
Reason was born in Glendale in Los Angeles County, California, the so ...
as Major Richard 'Dick' Grey
*Glenn Dixon as Felix Agung
*Bob Okazaki as Kuji
*Jerry Frank as Corporal
References
External links
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1957 films
Films directed by Howard W. Koch
United Artists films
American adventure films
1957 adventure films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
English-language adventure films
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