JUNGLE MOON MEN-1955-Johnny Weissmuller
plays Johnny Weissmuller who bares a strong resemblance to Jungle Jim
in this low budget adventure (it's because the studio lost the rights
to the JJ character). He helps a woman writer (Jean Bryon) try and
find the source of life but instead runs into a tribe of “little
men” (lead by Billy Curtis). Myron Healey is a trouble making guide
looking for diamonds. The small safari captures the little leader
and ties him to a tree. At night the rest of the tribe (Angelo
Rossetto is there) disguises themselves as trees to save their
leader. They also kidnap Bryon's macho boyfriend Bob (Bill Henry) and
tie him to a tree. It turns out the tribe is working for “the moon
goddess Oma (Helen Stanton from THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES the
same year)) a blond haired white woman with ties to ancient Egypt!
She wants to make Bob her high priest. In the end runaway lions ruin
her empire and “Ra, the sun god” turns Oma into dust.
This
typical Sam Katzman Columbia production seems to choose the most
un-African sets it can find (this was filmed on stuntman Crash
Corrigan's ranch). JUNGLE MOON MEN is one of only a handful of movies Charles S.
Gould directed as he was a busy assistant or second unit director.
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