Jungle Menace

Jungle Menace
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Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byEarl Turner
Music byLee Zahler
Color processBlack and white
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 26, 1937 (1937-10-26)
Running time
15 chapters (308 min)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
1937 lobby card

Jungle Menace (1937) is the first serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Based on the success of Republic Pictures'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, Buck plays the role of Frank Hardy, a soldier of fortune who intervenes in and investigates attempts to run a rubber plantation owner and his daughter off their land.

It was directed by Harry L. Fraser and George Melford, and filmed in black and white in Stockton, California, USA.

In 1946, material from this serial was re-edited into the 70-minute feature film adaptation called Jungle Terror.