Jungle Girl - Serial

Jungle Girl - Serial


Starring:Frances Gifford, Tom Neal, Trevor Bardette, Gerald Mohr, Eddie Acuff, Frank Lackteen, Tommy Cook, Robert Barron, Al Kikume, Bud Geary, Al Taylor, Joe McGuinn, Jerry Frank, Ken Terrell, Jay Silverheels
Director: John English, William Witney
Studio: Vci Video
Product Type: DVD
Jungle Girl - Serial
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Nostalgia Reward
  • Jungle Girl Downunder review
  • Frances Gifford Swings
  • "VCI and Republic Pictures present Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Jungle Girl"
  • One of the best!!!
 Jungle Girl - Serial
Starring: Frances Gifford , Tom Neal , Trevor Bardette , Gerald Mohr , and Eddie Acuff
Director: John English , and William Witney
Manufacturer: Vci Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000051S39
Release Date: 2000-12-19

Description

In 1941 Republic thrilled audiences with perhaps the best jungle serial every produced . This thrilling adventure was based loosely on the famous novel "Jungle Girl" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It starred the very beautiful Frances Gifford as Nyoka, with Tom Neal as the male hero Jack Stanton, and Trevor Bardette and Gerald Mohr as their villainous adversaries. Jungle Girl was packed with thrilling cliffhangers as opposing sides fought from chapter to chapter for a fortune in diamonds hidden in the African jungle. With both Helen Thurston and David Sharpe providing incredible stunt work, Gifford was able to swing through the jungle on vines with the agility of Tarzan, dive from cliffs into alligator-filled lakes, wrestle with man-eating lions, and battle quicksand and poison gas throughout all fifteen exciting episodes! Now re-mastered from a newly discovered 35mm master positive print. Bonus Features: Photo Gallery| Biographies| Chapter Menu. Specs: 2-DVD9s; Dolby Digital Mono; 267 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1941; SRP - $19.99.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Nostalgia Reward.......2007-05-16

Refreshing to return to the vintage serials of one's youth when there was no difficulty in distinguishing the "good guys" from the "bad guys". Although devoid of today's computer generated special effects, the camera work and action is well conceived and entertaining. Best of all, your granchildren can watch and enjoy the action without graphic violence and bloodshed to disturb them. One of the better serials of the 1940's.

4 out of 5 stars Jungle Girl Downunder review.......2007-01-11

Good, old fashioned matinee movie action. Each chapter ends with a cliffhanger. Cast and story 4 star rating, picture quality excellent. Highly recommended for nostalgia fanatics.

5 out of 5 stars Frances Gifford Swings.......2006-01-09

The great director William Witney felt that this was his best serial. It was the first serial to star a woman in the featured role. Unfortunately, both leads had tragic ends. As did the elephant who graces the opening credits, a movie veteran who burned to death in a truck fire years later.

Frances Gifford, the younger sister of NFL great Frank Gifford, was beautiful and an excellent actress. A terrible auto accident in 1949 wrecked her career. She tried a comeback in the early 1950's, but her health was so bad she couldn't make it, and spent quite a lot of time in a mental hospital. She recovered sufficiently in later life to devote herself to charitable causes. Frances Gifford died in 1994 at age 73.

Tom Neal was the quintessential low-budget film noir hero. He had achieved notoriety at an early age when his father kept him from eloping with Inez Martin, a buxom former Follies girl and mistress of slain mobster Arnold Rothsrein. By the early '50s, Neal was well-known for his off-screen escapades. He famously brawled with Franchot Tone over starlet Barbara Payton, breaking Tone's cheekbone and giving him a brain concussion. Tom Neal was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his third wife, Gale Bennett, and served six years in prison. He died of a heart attack in 1972 at age 58.

Incidentally, their buddy in this picture, Eddie Acuff, was the brother of Roy Acuff, and played this kind of role in pictures for years. He's best known as the postman that Dagwood constantly runs into when late for work in the "Blondie" movies.

The great stuntman Davy Sharpe did much of the doubling in this picture, including the vine-swinging scenes for Frances Gifford. Gifford was also doubled by Helen Thurston.

This two-disk set has 10 chapters on Disk One and 5 chapters on Disk Two. The second disk is filled up with prevues of 24 other serials, lasting about an hour.

5 out of 5 stars "VCI and Republic Pictures present Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ Jungle Girl".......2005-09-13

VCI Entertainment and Republic Pictures present Edgar Rice Burroughs "Jungle Girl" (1941) (digitally remastered), 15 Chapters of vintage serial loaded with action sequences...with his infant daughter Nyoka, Dr. John Meredith lives in the African Jungle trying to help the local natives of the Masamba tribes...the tribe owns diamond mines and a gang of thugs is itching to take it away with the help of Shamba the witch doctor who very much dislikes Dr. Meredith...thus enters Slick Latimer who shoots Dr. Meredith in back...the evil twin brother Bradley Meredith who is Latimer's partner takes his brothers place...Jack Stanton and his sidekick Curley come to the aid of Nyoka whenever the 15 chapters need them...can Nyoka and native boy Wakimbu keep the evil native chief Shamba from their gasoline supply for their airplane from being sabotaged...there is a great deal of entertainment here for the cliffhanger fans out there.

Under director's John English and William Witney with screenplay by Alfred Batson, Ronald Davidson, Joseph O'Donnell, William Lively, Norman S. Hall, Joseph F. Poland and novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs...the cast include Frances Gifford (Nyoka Meredith), Tom Neal (Jack Stanton), Trevor Bardette (Dr. John Meredith/Bradley Meredith), Gerald Mohr (Slick Latimer), Eddie Acuff (Curly Rogers), Frank Lackteen (Shamba), Tommy Cook (Kimbu) ...another great serial provided by Republic Pictures during their heyday in the early '40s.. this serial is one of the best...stuntwork is outstanding with Helen Thurston doubling for Frances Gifford pulls off some really convincing acrobatic vine swinging and watch for David Sharpe who is doubling for all the fight scenes and then some.

CHAPTER TITLES: (Disc One)
1. Death by Voodo
2. Queen of the Beasts
3. River of Fire
4. Treachery
5. Jungle Vengeance
6. Tribal Fury
7. The Poison Dart
8. Man Trap
9. Treasure Tomb
10.Jungle Killer

SPECIAL FEATURES: (Disc One)
Photo Gallery
BIOS:
John English (Director)
William Witney (Director)
Francis Gifford
Trevor Bardette
Tom Neal
Eddie Acuff

CHAPTER TITLES: (Disc Two)
11.Dangerous Secret
12.Trapped
13.Ambush
14.Diamond Trail
15.Flight to Freedom

SPECIAL FEATURES: (Disc Two)
Photo Gallery
BIOS:
John English (Director)
William Witney (Director)
Francis Gifford
Trevor Bardette
Tom Neal
Eddie Acuff

VCI CLIFFHANGER COLLECTION (Disc Two)
Tim Tyler's Luck
The Master Key
The Mysterious Mr. M
Mystery of the Riverboat
Riders of Death Valley
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Jungle Queen
Raiders of Ghost City
Lost City of the Jungle
The Phantom Creeps
The Great Alaskan Mystery
Winners of the West
The Fighting Marines
Robinson Cruso of Clipper Island
Junior G-Men of the Air
Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Radio Patrol
Don Winslow of the Navy
Gang Busters
Tailspin Tommy
Scouts to the Rescue
Adventures of Red Ryder
Zorro Rides Again
Radar Men from the Moon

Own them now on DVD....if you crave action, drama and plenty of adventure then this is the place for all of the above...if you enjoyed this serial check out another release from VCI Entertainment as they present Alex Raymond's "Jungle Jim " (1936) (digitally remastered), 12 Chapters of vintage serial loaded with action sequences - really outstanding scenes between a lion and tiger in a to the death fight...high production from Universal's serial department...each episode chuck full of scenes loaded with cliffhanger adventure...gotta love it!

Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing the digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '40s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again with a top notch serial from VCI...just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 267 mins on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment 8265 ~ (7/03/2001)

5 out of 5 stars One of the best!!!.......2005-08-30

The pinnacle of movie serials. Republic, Frances Gifford, Whitney and English, says it all. A MASTERPIECE AMONG MOVIE SERIALS!

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