***SPOILERS*** Jungle Jim, Johnny Weissmuller, gets recruited by the Unitate States Government to find this Ngoma plant that only grows on an island off the coast of Africa that produces fibers that are indestructible. It''s a foreign and unmanned power or government, take you pick, who want's to get it's hands on that plant and use it for evil purposes. Like in bankrupting the US as well as other Western textile industries and causing a major depression in the commodity stock markets!
With secret US Government agent Captain Ann R. Kingsley, Ann Savage, lost in the jungle, she's actually being protected by a group of white Pygmys, looking for the plant it's now up to our hero Jungle Jim, or JJ for short, to both find and rescue her before the bad guys lead by the double dealing Leon Marko, Steven Gray, find her and where the valuable Ngoma plant is being grown. Jungle Jim does his usual thing in he movie "Pygmy island" including fighting and killing a man eating but rubber crocodile as well as slugging it out with a man in a monkey suit who seemed to have gotten the better of him until his pet chimpanzee Tamba came to JJ's rescue. Tamba not only ends up whipping the big hairy gorilla silly but also makes a monkey out of the guy as well.
It's Marko and his cut throat cohorts who disguised themselves as the notorious Bush Devil tribesmen who terrify the Pygmys into deserting their villages that contains the soil where the Ngoma plant grows in. Once it's reviled by Jungle Jim that the Bush Devils are nothing but a gang of puny, in the Pygmy's eyes, white men it doesn't take long for them to get on message and with the help of Jim put and end to their reign of greed and terror on Pygmy Island.
The fifth installment of some dozen Jungle Jim movies that by now seems to be following the same storyline with Jim and his jungle friends doing in the bad guys who are mostly greedy foreigners who are up to no good. Being made in 1950 when the Cold War was heating up, with the Korean War breaking out that summer, the bad guys in the film were obviously eastern block USSR communists but for some strange reason the makers of the film kept their identities or loyalties secret. Maybe it was done in not giving the Reds a reason, in being made to look like a bunch of buffoons and complete fools on the silver screen, to make things for us,the nations free world, worse then they already were!
With secret US Government agent Captain Ann R. Kingsley, Ann Savage, lost in the jungle, she's actually being protected by a group of white Pygmys, looking for the plant it's now up to our hero Jungle Jim, or JJ for short, to both find and rescue her before the bad guys lead by the double dealing Leon Marko, Steven Gray, find her and where the valuable Ngoma plant is being grown. Jungle Jim does his usual thing in he movie "Pygmy island" including fighting and killing a man eating but rubber crocodile as well as slugging it out with a man in a monkey suit who seemed to have gotten the better of him until his pet chimpanzee Tamba came to JJ's rescue. Tamba not only ends up whipping the big hairy gorilla silly but also makes a monkey out of the guy as well.
It's Marko and his cut throat cohorts who disguised themselves as the notorious Bush Devil tribesmen who terrify the Pygmys into deserting their villages that contains the soil where the Ngoma plant grows in. Once it's reviled by Jungle Jim that the Bush Devils are nothing but a gang of puny, in the Pygmy's eyes, white men it doesn't take long for them to get on message and with the help of Jim put and end to their reign of greed and terror on Pygmy Island.
The fifth installment of some dozen Jungle Jim movies that by now seems to be following the same storyline with Jim and his jungle friends doing in the bad guys who are mostly greedy foreigners who are up to no good. Being made in 1950 when the Cold War was heating up, with the Korean War breaking out that summer, the bad guys in the film were obviously eastern block USSR communists but for some strange reason the makers of the film kept their identities or loyalties secret. Maybe it was done in not giving the Reds a reason, in being made to look like a bunch of buffoons and complete fools on the silver screen, to make things for us,the nations free world, worse then they already were!