Jungle Jim (serial)

Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim
Directed by	Ford Beebe; Clifford Smith; (as Cliff Smith)
Screenplay by	Wyndham Gittens; Norman S. Hall; Ray Trampe
Based on	Alex Raymond (comic strip by)
Produced by	Ben Koenig; Henry MacRae
Starring	Grant Withers; Betty Jane Rhodes; Raymond Hatton; Evelyn Brent; Harry Brandon
Cinematography	Jerome Ash; (as Jerry Ash)
Edited by	Louis Sackin; Alvin Todd; Edward Todd
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	January 18, 1937;
Running time	12 chapters; (232 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	English

Jungle Jim is a 1937 Universal serial film based on Jungle Jim, the comic strip by Alex Raymond. Grant Withers starred as Jungle Jim, and Henry Brandon played the villainous Cobra.

Plot

Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman and escort her back to civilisation. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance themselves...

Cast

Grant Withers as Jungle Jim
Betty Jane Rhodes as Joan
Raymond Hatton as Malay Mike
Evelyn Brent as Shanghai Lil
Henry Brandon as The Cobra
Bryant Washburn as Bruce Redmond
Claude King as Territorial Consul Gilbert [Ch.1]
Selmer Jackson as Attorney Tyler [Ch.1] (as Selmar Jackson)
Al Bridge as Slade
Paul Sutton as LaBat [Chs.1-6]
Al Duvall as Kolu
Frank Mayo as Tom Redmond [Ch.1]
J.P. McGowan as Ship Captain J.S. Robinson [Ch.1]
Frank McGlynn Jr. as Red Hallihan [Ch.1]

Chapter titles

Into the Lion's Den
The Cobra Strikes
The Menacing Hand
The Killer's Trail
The Bridge of Terror
Drums of Doom
The Earth Trembles
The Killer Lion
The Devil Bird
Descending Doom
In the Cobra's Castle
The Last Safari^[1]

References

^ Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 216. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

External links

Jungle Jim at IMDb

Preceded by Ace Drummond (1936)	Universal Serial Jungle Jim (1937)	Succeeded by Secret Agent X-9 (1937)

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[1] Cline, William C. (1984). "Filmography". In the Nick of Time. McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 216. ISBN 0-7864-0471-X.

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