The Naked Jungle

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The Naked Jungle was a (1954) film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a South American cocoa plantation, it was based on the short story Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson.. The screenplay, about a stubborn plantation owner and his mail-order bride who fend off the ravenous ants, known as marabunta, was co-written by Ranald MacDougall and the blacklisted writer Ben Maddow. The film was produced in Technicolor by George Pal, who also made The War of the Worlds, Tom Thumb, and The Time Machine.

[edit] Pop culture references

The short story and the film inspired the MacGyver episode "Trumbo's World". Footage from the film was also used in the episode.

There is no actual nudity in the movie.

[edit] External links

• http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/n/naked-jungle-dvd.shtml
• The Naked Jungle at the Internet Movie Database
• http://charltonhestonworld.homestead.com/NakedJungle.html
• http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=6658
• http://www.waroftheworldsfilm.com/shop.php?mode=DVD&item=B0002WZTIY
• If the ants come, I'm gonna call for Chuck Heston
• http://www.moria.co.nz/horror/nakedjungle.htm]
• http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/nakedjungle.htm
• http://www.timeout.com/film/63136.html

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