Opening Credits - Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)

The eighth entry in Sam Katzman's poverty row 'Jungle Jim' series is one of the most amusing, pitting Johnny Weismuller (49 at the time) and an attractive new anthropologist friend against greedy ivory hunters. The nonsense plot has the ivory hunters contracting Zulu tribesmen (all white) to slaughter stock footage elephants as they cross through a forbidden land of werewolf-like giant people, and features a tour-de-force wrestling match between Weismuller and a puppet hippopotamus.

'Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land' was the second in the series to be directed by Lew Landers, working from a script by Samuel Newman (of 'The Giant Claw' fame). Aside from Weismuller, the film stars Angela Green ('The Cosmic Man'), Jean Willes ('The Man Who Turned to Stone'), Katzman regular George Eldredge and Tamba, the troublesome chimpanzee. The credits are prototypical of the series, right down to the fonts utilized, and few of the films would deviate from the format.

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Film & Animation

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• Sam Katzman
• Jungle Jim
• Johnny Weismuller
• Adventure
• Credits