Jungle Menace

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Jungle Menace
Photograph of star Frank Buck
Directed by	Harry L. Fraser George Melford
Produced by	Robert Mintz executive Louis Weiss
Written by	George M. Merrick Sherman Lowe Harry Hoyt George Melford George Rosener Arthur Hoerl Dallas M. Fitzgerald Gordon Griffith
Starring	Frank Buck Reginald Denny LeRoy Mason Richard Tucker Duncan Renaldo
Cinematography	Edward Linden Herman Schopp
Editing by	Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	26 October 1937 June 1946
Running time	15 chapters (308 min)
Country	United States
Language	English
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Jungle Menace(1937) is a Columbia movie serial. It was the first serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Based on the success of Republic's 1936 serial Darkest Africa, starring real-life animal trainer Clyde Beatty, Columbia made this exotic jungle serial starring real-life animal collector Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck. Set in the fictional land of Seemang in Asia, Frank Buck plays Frank Hardy, a soldier of fortune who intervenes in and investigates attempts to run a rubber plantation owner and his daughter off their land.

In 1946 material from this serial was re-edited into the 70-minute feature film Jungle Terror.

[edit] Cast

Frank Buck as Frank Hardy, Soldier of fortune
Reginald Denny as Ralph Marshall
LeRoy Mason as Murphy
Richard Tucker as Robert Banning
Duncan Renaldo as Roget
William Bakewell as Tom Banning
Charlotte Henry as Dorothy Elliott, the plantation owner's daughter
Matthew Betz as Detective Lieutenant Starrett
Sasha Siemel as 'Tiger' Van Dorn
George Rosener as The Professor
John Davidson as 'Doctor' Coleman
Robert Warwick as Chief Inspector Angus MacLeod