Jungle Moon Men | |
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Directed by | Charles S. Gould |
Screenplay by | Jo Pagano Dwight Babcock |
Story by | Jo Pagano |
Based on | Jungle Jim 1934-1954 comic strip by Don Moore and Alex Raymond |
Produced by | Sam Katzman |
Starring | Johnny Weissmuller Jean Byron Myron Healey |
Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
Edited by | Henry Batista |
Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Jungle Moon Men (1955) is the fifteenth Jungle Jim film produced by Columbia Pictures. It features Johnny Weissmuller in his second performance as the protagonist adventurer Johnny Weissmuller. The film was directed by Charles S. Gould and written by Dwight Babcock and Jo Pagano.
The film centres on jungle roamer Johnny Weissmuller and his team attempting to rescue an acquaintance in the jungle of Baku, which is inhabited by "moon men" worshipping an apparent Moon Goddess. Filming took place in May 1954 in California. It was theatrically released in the United States in April 1955.