African Treasure (1952)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Ford Beebe

Writers:

Ford Beebe (screenplay)
Ford Beebe (story)

Release Date:

10 July 1953 (Finland)

Genre:

Adventure

Tagline:

BARBARIC THRILLS IN HUNT FOR "DIAMOND MOUNTAIN"!

Plot:

Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.

Plot Keywords:

Jungle | Bomba | Sequel

Cast

Johnny Sheffield	...	Bomba
Laurette Luez	...	Lita Sebastian
Leonard Mudie	...	Andy Barnes
Arthur Space	...	Greg
Lane Bradford	...	Hardy
Martin Garralaga	...	Pedro Sebastian
Lyle Talbot	...	Roy DeHaven, alias Pat Gilroy
Smoki Whitfield	...	Eli (as Robert 'Smoki' Whitfield)
Kimbbo the Chimp	...	Bomba's Chimp

Also Known As:

Bomba and the African Treasure (UK)

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Monogram Pictures

Movie Connections:

Followed by The Golden Idol (1954)

Baldwin Lake doubles for Africa as Bomba No. 7 plods along in stock footage.

Andy Barnes (Leonard Mudie) gets word by short wave that two of the three geologists who passed through his district some weeks before were known diamond smugglers, and that nothing since has been heard of the trio. And he also learns that a hunter, Pat Gilroy (Lyle Talbot), who has just arrived at the compound is really an escaped convict named Roy DeHaven.

Obviously, time to call in Bomba the Jungle Boy (Johnny Sheffield). He is summoned via the jungle drum wireless-telegraph, and Barnes asks Bomba to go to the cheesy back lot set and try to locate Gatesby, the geologist who was with Greg (Arthur Space) and Hardy (Lane Bradford.)Bomba finds the body of Gatesby but...lucky him and the viewer---he also finds Lita Sebastian (Laurette Luez), who is out in the jungle looking for her father, Pedro (Martin Garralaga),a Portuguese guide, and the cheesy jungle set now looks better than it did.

Through the help of jungle drums and his animal friends, all stock footage except Kimbbo the Chimp, Bomba leads Lita to where her father, and a large number of natives, are being held as slaves by Greg and Hardy, who have found diamonds in the crater of an extinct volcano, known locally as The Mountain of Diamonds. Lita is captured by Greg, but Bomba has summoned help and Gerg and Hardy flee but not without first staring a landslide on the enslaved workers.

Bomba has a lot of work to do before he can restore order to this jungle.