Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Better Late Then Never

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

'Jungle Man' or 'Drums Of Africa' is a low budget adventure set somewhere in Africa with a busy plot taking in a search for a lost city (a misplaced Angkor Wat!), a search for a cure for a tropical disease, a tribe on the warpath (though that plot line never develops) and a pack of lions invading a village, not to mention a vague love triangle. All flavoured with stock footage of cute or cantankerous animals. All that you want in a jungle picture. Except excitement.Buster Crabbe shows off his manly chest, Sheila Darcy shows off her womanly legs and Vince Barnett shows off his fine beard. Buster gets a chance also to show his swimming skills. Charles Middleton is rather sweet in a good performance as Rev. James, though to see him and Buster Crabbe sit down together in amity and not war with each other in interstellar space in a Flash Gordon serial was rather strange.Not that good but there are nice shots of elephants and hippos if you like that sort of thing.

"An African expedition searching for the 'City of the Dead' finds them facing many perils along the way. Natives, wild animals, and deadly diseases are met by the explorers as they look for the lost city and a long lost missionary. A doctor working on a cure for the jungle illness joins the expedition in the hopes their combined forces can meet the challenges they face," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Director Harry Fraser shows some humor by panning busty Sheila Darcy (as Betty Graham) just before she coincidently utters her line, "Two heads are better than one." This film (also known as "Drums of Africa") intercuts "stock" animal/jungle scenes unconvincingly with hunky jungle doctor Buster Crabbe (as Robert "Junga" Hammond) and the visiting expedition. Sub-standard Saturday matinée stuffing.** Jungle Man (9/19/41) Harry Fraser ~ Buster Crabbe, Sheila Darcy, Charles Middleton

Drums of Africa (1941) * 1/2 (out of 4) A group of people head out into the jungles of Africa in search of the "City of the Dead" but think jungles, the wild life and natives cause several problems. Buster Crabbe leads the cast and adds a little excitement to this film but overall it drags for the most part. There's a lot of stock footage of various jungle animals and this stuff is fun to watch but the actual "story" of the film is a dull and boring mess. Not to mention that the whole set up never really pays off.The film is on various public domain labels under the title Jungle Man.

Bruce Kellogg travels with his fiance Betty, her father, and Bruce's assistant Andy to unexplored Africa to search for the City of the Dead (apt reference to the movie). They arrive at the camp of Father Jim, who happens to be Betty's uncle and Dr. Hammond (aka Junga), who is working on a cure for a deadly jungle fever. Basically the "plot" has Bruce, Andy, and the guide Buckthorn going searching for the lost city, while Junga and Betty remain to save a village from the jungle fever and "get to know each other better". Blame for the dreck should be put on the shoulders of director Fraser, who turns this film (with a decent cast) into a home made 8mm movie version of a Ramar of the Jungle episode (apologies to Ramar), but also aided by an incompetent crew. Crabbe, Middleton, (how did these two get in here one year after Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe?), and Darcy all come off as listless and just waiting out the week this film must have been made in, but still better than the rest of the cast who can't deliver dialog or act, especially Barnett as the safari guide. Since its a poverty row jungle film, we have an overabundance of silent stock footage of native ceremonies and safaris. A black mark on everyone involved. Rating, 1.