''Safari Drums'' is a 1953 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 ...
and starring
Johnny Sheffield
Johnny Sheffield (born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan, April 11, 1931 – October 15, 2010) was an American child actor who, between 1939 and 1947, portrayed Boy in the Tarzan film series and, between 1949 and 1955, played Bomba, the Jungle Boy.
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as Bomba. It was the ninth in the 12-film ''
Bomba, the Jungle Boy
''Bomba, the Jungle Boy'' is a series of American boys' adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood. and published by Cupples and Leon in the first half of the 20th century, in imitation of the successfu ...
'' series, based on the ''
Bomba'' series of juvenile adventure books.
Plot
A millionaire brings a tiger and film crew to Africa in hopes of staging a battle between the tiger and a lion. Commissioner Barnes learns that one of the crew is a murderer and asks Bomba to find out which one. The Lost Volcano erupts again (this film makes use of previously seen footage) and there is a battle between a lion and a tiger.
Cast
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Johnny Sheffield
Johnny Sheffield (born John Matthew Sheffield Cassan, April 11, 1931 – October 15, 2010) was an American child actor who, between 1939 and 1947, portrayed Boy in the Tarzan film series and, between 1949 and 1955, played Bomba, the Jungle Boy.
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as Bomba
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Douglas Kennedy Brad Morton
* Barbara Bestar as Peggy Jethro
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Emory Parnell
Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career.
Early years
Parnell was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He spent eight months in the Arct ...
as Larry Conrad
* Paul Marion as Steve
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Leonard Mudie
Leonard Mudie (born Leonard Mudie Cheetham; April 11, 1883April 14, 1965) was an English character actor whose career lasted for nearly fifty years. After a successful start as a stage actor in England, he appeared regularly in the US, and made ...
as Deputy Commissioner Barnes
* Smoki Whitfield as Eli
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Russ Conway
Russ Conway, DSM (born Trevor Herbert Stanford; 2 September 1925 – 16 November 2000) was an English popular music pianist and composer. Conway had 20 piano instrumentals in the UK Singles Chart between 1957 and 1963, including two number ...
as Collins
Reception
The ''Los Angeles Times'' called this "one of the most exciting jungle pictures you have ever seen."
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1953 films
American adventure films
Films directed by Ford Beebe
1953 adventure films
Allied Artists films
American black-and-white films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
Films scored by Marlin Skiles
English-language adventure films
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