Safari Drums
1953 film directed by Ford Beebe
- June 21, 1953 (1953-06-21)
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Safari Drums is a 1953 American adventure film and starring Johnny Sheffield as Bomba. It was the ninth in the 12-film Bomba, the Jungle Boy series,[1] based on the Bomba series of juvenile adventure books.
Plot
A millionaire brings a tiger and film crew to Africa in hopes of staging a battle between the tiger and a lion. Commissioner Barnes learns that one of the crew is a murderer and asks Bomba to find out which one. The Lost Volcano erupts again (this film makes use of previously seen footage) and there is a battle between a lion and a tiger.
Cast
- Johnny Sheffield as Bomba
- Douglas Kennedy Brad Morton
- Barbara Bestar as Peggy Jethro
- Emory Parnell as Larry Conrad
- Paul Marion as Steve
- Leonard Mudie as Deputy Commissioner Barnes
- Smoki Whitfield as Eli
- Russ Conway as Collins
Reception
The Los Angeles Times called this "one of the most exciting jungle pictures you have ever seen."[2]
References
External links
- Safari Drums at IMDb
- Safari Drums at the TCM Movie Database
- Safari Drums at AllMovie
- Safari Drums at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Ford Beebe
- The Vanishing Legion (1931)
- The Pride of the Legion (1932)
- Law Beyond the Range (1935)
- The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935)
- The Man from Guntown (1935)
- Stampede (1936)
- Jungle Jim (1937)
- West Bound Limited (1937)
- Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
- The Phantom Creeps (1939)
- Oklahoma Frontier (1939)
- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
- The Green Hornet (1940)
- Son of Roaring Dan (1940)
- The Masked Rider (1941)
- Night Monster (1942)
- Frontier Badmen (1943)
- Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
- Easy to Look At (1945)
- My Dog Shep (1946)
- Six-Gun Serenade (1947)
- Courtin' Trouble (1948)
- Shep Comes Home (1948)
- Texas Manhunt (1949)
- Satan's Cradle (1949)
- The Dalton Gang (1949)
- Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
- Bomba on Panther Island (1949)
- The Lost Volcano (1950)
- The Hidden City (1951)
- The Lion Hunters (1951)
- Elephant Stampede (1952)
- African Treasure (1952)
- Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
- Safari Drums (1953)
- The Golden Idol (1954)
- Killer Leopard (1954)
- Lord of the Jungle (1955)
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